The MSM has refused to cover the "John Edwards Fathered Bat Boy!!!" story. In protest of this travesty, Mickey Kaus called a press conference today and dropped his pants.

Kaus (above) has studied the Kaballah in private with Madonna and Roseanne Barr

Join me after the jump for a picture from the press conference. But first, hide your children (and your goats).

1661 - Parliament confirms Navigation Act

1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. . . . To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason.
. . . . Thus the effectiveness of a doctrine should not be judged by its profundity, sublimity or the validity of the truths it embodies, but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from his self and the world as it is. What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: It must be 'contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.'"
-- Eric Hoffer

I know, it seemed to inexplicable, how could a journalist of such stellar talent and unshakable credability do something so rancidly corrupt that it would shake the faith in unbiased reporting that Americans have had for years?!

But there was something we didn't know, a simple explanation that, once heard, clears everything up. It was a promo for CBS Films new Blockbuster film! I managed to get my hands on some promotional material which I scanned and uploaded. Check it out below the fold!

(Update)
I just wanted to say, if you want to steal this image and spread it around, please DO SO! It isn't just early morning people at the great Orange Satan that need a laugh.

Yesterday John McCain announced his Vice Presidential selection to a crowd of tens in a parking garage in Columbus, Ohio. Unfortunately, there was no media present, no one in the crowd thought to video the event and there was no cell phone coverage in the 3 story underground facility. Asked if it was true he had named his running mate McCain responded, "Are you my economy czar? No, have you seen him?" Later at a restaurant near his home former Congressman Rob Portman was asked if he was the choice. "Yes it is," said Portman, "and the wine is superb."

Dear Journal,
The other I visited what Americans call the "grocery store". It was quite an experience. After all these years, I thought tha Frank my driver accumulated all of my food and delivered it. I had no idea that these stores existed.

While I was busy working the registration tables at NN08, Kay Bailey Hutchison wrote me last week to thank me for sharing my thoughts on the FISA bill and immunity for the Telecoms - you'll have to trust me on this one since I can't link back to my inbox:

I recognize that some oppose liability protection, but I believe that it is untenable to allow lawsuits to proceed at the same time that we limit the ability of the defendant companies to produce evidence critical to their defense. The potential liability awards that might result could be catastrophic, negatively affecting the broader economy and signaling to these companies, and to other private entities that we may need to rely upon in the War on Terror, that their cooperation carries major risks.

Please know that I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to safeguard the security of our nation while upholding our personal privacy rights and civil liberties.

Senator Hutchinson said that she appreciated hearing from me, so I wrote her back to say that since she had sworn to uphold the Constitution, that the catastrophic impact of this bill on my Constitutional rights was simply untenable.  Surprisingly, I didn't get a response to that email.

Staff Infection
AP Nooz
Jul 24, 2008 beer:30 EST

Republican presidential candidate John McCain (R-Get Off My Lawn) is scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, on Friday in Colorado.

"I’m certainly looking forward to it," said the Arizona Senator, "I’ve been a fan of her music for many years."

Why has our media not given us the facts about Barack "Solomon" Obama?  This really exposes the liberal taint in our cowardly press.

Why are you voting Republican?

Please Join me below to find out why I'm asking

German Village, OH (Rotters)

This morning, Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain gave the most important foreign policy speech of his candidacy.

At Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant, before a moderately enthusiastic crowd estimated to be about six -- the McCain campaign believes it was closer to 45,000 -- Senator McCain gave his views on the foreign policy issues he believes will be faced by the next President.

"My first priority as President of the United States will be to win repeal of the Treaty of Versailles," McCain exclaimed, to thunderous looks of confusion from the audience.  "I always thought you Krauts got a raw deal," he said, "and I can promise the Weimar government that I will do everything in my power to restore Germany to its rightful place as the European leader in peace and in war.  Or was that in war and peace?  That sounds familiar somehow.  Whatever."

GOP Presidential candidate John McCain, fresh off his triumphant speech at the Sausage Haus has been forced to cancel a planned rally at a Scranton, PA Waffle House due to a syrup spill.

The McCain campaign scrambled to replace the event, claiming it was only rumored to begin with.  Instead, perhaps as a counter to opponent Barrack Obama's European tour, they have chosen to have McCain speak over the loudspeaker at a Zanesville, OH International House of Pancakes.  "It says it right there in the name," a McCain spokesperson said, "International".

McCain plans to be at the IHOP between 2pm and 4pm, so as to allow campaign staff to catch the early bird special.  

UPDATE:  Yes, there is a Waffle House in Scranton.

MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - A monument to spaghetti is to be unveiled in a village near Borovsk, a city to the south-west of Moscow, the project organizer said on Monday.

The three-meter (9.8 feet) metallic sculpture portrays two pieces of pasta, one shaped like a smile, the other colored red. A man and a woman sit on the edge of the 'smile' eating pasta.

The monument, designed by Ukrainian sculptors, will be uncovered on Saturday.

Yevgeny Yegorov, the organizer of the project and also a keen spaghetti eater, said the Italian dish symbolizes worldwide unity.

The ceremony dedicated to the opening of the monument coincides with the start of a local food festival, "The world of spaghetti."

During the festival, a total of 15,000 visitors will be able to try different kinds of spaghetti.

http://en.rian.ru/...

The news came today, via the New York Times, that Dinko Sakic, the leader of a Nazi death camp, has died:

Mr. Sakic, the last living commander of a World War II-era concentration camp, died Sunday at 86 in a hospital in Zagreb, the Croatian news agency Hina reported, citing Croatia’s prison system as its source. Mr. Sakic was serving a 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity.

Given how the mainstream media has handled the death of other unrepentant racists and bigots, this is how I imagine they'll report his obituary:

Sakic was a disciplined worker who was strongly dedicated to his beliefs.  During World War Two, he ran a popular camp, which helped many a participate just melt off the pounds, using a modern-day approach to ancient techniques.  He was known to have a sense of humor, laughing and clapping in the face of adversity.  

He is survived by a wife and three children.

THIS JUST IN: (Hey, it's better than BREAKING) To counteract the Obama campaign's massive $5 million ad buy that will coincide with coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the McCain campaign has announce its own games, the Maverick Feats of Strength, which will be held in the 105-degree heat of Phoenix, Arizona.

A source close to the McCain campaign said that this move is a direct challenge to the Illinois Senator's ad buy, adding that he hopes it will detract from news stories about Obama's surging poll numbers, record-breaking fundraising and historic summits in the capitols of Europe and the Middle East.

"A lesser man would sit around whining about the lackluster showing of his campaign. But a great American like John McCain would make a different choice -- to be a Maverick and strike out on his own with his own version of the Olympic Games," the unnamed source said, adding that he believed the Ancient Greeks who started the Games were, "A little fruity anyway, weren't they?"

You've probably read how John McCain explained yesterday that he wasn't wrong about the timing in Iraq, because

"First of all, a surge is really a counterinsurgency strategy," Mr. McCain said in Bethlehem, Pa. "And it’s made up of a number of components. And this counterinsurgency was initiated to some degree by Colonel MacFarland in Anbar Province, relatively on his own. And I visited with him in December of 2006. He had already initiated that strategy in Ramadi by going in, and clearing and holding in certain places. That is a counterinsurgency. And he told me at that time that he believed that that strategy, which is quote ‘the surge,’ part of the surge, would be, would be, successful."

Implied, of course, is that the Surge would have been the Surge even if it had involved no increase (what the uninformed would call a 'surge') in troops.

You laughed at me, they all laughed at me!  But who's laughing now?!?

1775 - US Postal system created

1929 - President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
-- Herbert Hoover

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: