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South Carolina requires Subversives to register with the state, at an administrative cost of $5.

It seems Best Buy and Borders are run by liberal heathens--with agendas! And may God have mercy on your soul if you shop at GAP.

Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq’s security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.
The sensor device, known as the ADE 651, from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of the devices.
The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.
Still, the Iraqi government has purchased more than 1,500 of the devices, known as the ADE 651, at costs from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Nearly every police checkpoint, and many Iraqi military checkpoints, have one of the devices, which are now normally used in place of physical inspections of vehicles.

many more at Look at this Fucking Teabagger

Frank offers up a good example for the craven Democrats of how to deal—or not—with the hate mongers who've been driving the public discourse on health insurance lately. Here's a longer video from the same event.

Seriously, how stupid does a high profile politician with presidential aspirations have to be to disappear for a week in Argentina with his mistress? Perhaps he had already given up those hopes.

I give a hearty guffaw to those who defended Sanford prior to today with sentiments like, "Can't a man take a vacation without being picked apart by the liberal media?" HA! I'm looking forward to Stewart and Colbert's followups on last night's coverage of the missing governor.

It's been a bad week for the GOP. I'm sure God's prayer inbox will be overflowing tonight.

On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting “working class white Democrats.” The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children’s classics to improve her grammar while attending college. The panelists also suggested that, without English as the official language, President Obama would force Americans to speak Spanish.
One salient feature of the event was the banner hanging over the English-only advocates. The word conference was spelled “Conferenece.”
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Think the US has it bad? At least we're not as fucked as Iceland:

An entire nation without immediate experience or even distant memory of high finance had gazed upon the example of Wall Street and said, “We can do that.” For a brief moment it appeared that they could. In 2003, Iceland’s three biggest banks had assets of only a few billion dollars, about 100 percent of its gross domestic product. Over the next three and a half years they grew to over $140 billion and were so much greater than Iceland’s G.D.P. that it made no sense to calculate the percentage of it they accounted for. It was, as one economist put it to me, “the most rapid expansion of a banking system in the history of mankind.”
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In the end, Icelanders amassed debts amounting to 850 percent of their G.D.P. (The debt-drowned United States has reached just 350 percent.) As absurdly big and important as Wall Street became in the U.S. economy, it never grew so large that the rest of the population could not, in a pinch, bail it out. Any one of the three Icelandic banks suffered losses too large for the nation to bear; taken together they were so ridiculously out of proportion that, within weeks of the collapse, a third of the population told pollsters that they were considering emigration.

Hard to believe Microsoft is having to lay people off when they continue to have such innovative ideas and ethical business practices.

Amount jailed star quarterback Michael Vick spent from July '06 to July '08, according to recent bankruptcy papers: $17.7 million.
Amount of that time he was in prison: 8 months.
Total amount of checks he wrote his mother, Brenda Boddie—not counting all her bills he paid—even while in prison: $21,400.
Amount he donated to her church: $327,900
Amount Vick was sentenced to pay to house and care for the 47 pit bulls he and his buddies didn't drown, strangle, hang, shoot, or electrocute for not winning fights: $928,073.
Average pay, per hour, of Vick's pit bulls' caregivers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah: $14.
Pay, per hour, Vick gets for washing pots and pans at Leavenworth: 12 cents.

I thought cnn's "holograms" (video here) were dumb, cheesy, and pointless, but I didn't realize how sinister they were. (AC = Anti-Christ)

Think of the AC using this technology to to project his image GLOBALLY, for all those to bow down to.

He could realistically be everywhere at once. Now...how would one bring it to life (outside of just speaking)?

My son sent me this about a week or so ago. He says his office also has Cisco Telepersentation but not to this extent.
Cisco can do this now, and I bet CNN latched onto their technology. Yes, soon the AC's image really can be broadcast around the world. I am awestruck to still be here to have a glimpse of this technology and now understand how it will be after we're raptured.

From the same thread:

Well the frightening thing is that AC will have this technology at his disposal to perform false miracles, such as projecting his image into the sky so that people think he's floating, or making himself appear to walk on water. Granted this technology requires a lot of equipment to record and project the image, so he can't do it just anywhere. But think about this, all he has to do is project his image into the sky (or onto the water) in one location before an adoring crowd, then simply televise that to the rest of the world. What a perfect way to trick the unbelievers into thinking he's the Messiah. People will believe anything in those times, he'll have little difficulty deceiving most of them.

emphasis mine.

They've also done experiments where they projected images of Jesus, Buddha, and other religious figures in the sky using the same technology. (By "they" I mean the government, not CNN).

to their credit, at least some of the posters there realize it's a video effect.

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I’ve amassed an inspiring collection of al-Qaeda T-shirts, Islamic Jihad flags, Hezbollah videotapes, and inflatable Yasir Arafat dolls (really). All these things I’ve carried with me through airports across the country. I’ve also carried, at various times: pocketknives, matches from hotels in Beirut and Peshawar, dust masks, lengths of rope, cigarette lighters, nail clippers, eight-ounce tubes of toothpaste (in my front pocket), bottles of Fiji Water (which is foreign), and, of course, box cutters. I was selected for secondary screening four times—out of dozens of passages through security checkpoints—during this extended experiment. At one screening, I was relieved of a pair of nail clippers; during another, a can of shaving cream.