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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012Hey, did you know that Ron Paul is having a money bomb on April 15? Btw, Ron Paul money bomb on the 15th of April. Ron Paul, money bomb, April 15
Monday, April 9th, 2012This is an e-mail one of your editors received from the Ron Paul campaign. I think there will be a money bomb on April 15th, but it’s hard to tell from the language of the e-mail–though maybe the P.S. is trying to say something. It’s interesting to note that Ron Paul is still playing up the delegate strategy, and, as of a speech he gave in Berkeley last week, he still sounded very confident about his prospects. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich is talking about his campaign in the past tense. We’ll see what happens in Tampa, which is after the money bomb on the 15th (btw).
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If the establishment had its way, there would only be one Republican left in this race – and the National Convention would just be a massive rally for Mitt Romney.
There would be no talk about individual liberty. No mention of trillion-dollar deficits, real spending cuts, and the out-of-control Federal Reserve.
And there would be no questioning the cost of utopian nation-building schemes or policing the world.
But thanks to your hard work and dedication to the cause of liberty, the establishment isn’t getting its way.
Not this time.
I’m planning to take my campaign to Restore America NOW all the way to Tampa, Florida, for the Republican National Convention.
But to do so, my campaign must have the funds to continue picking up delegates all across the country.
So can I count on you to help me fight all the way to the National Convention bypledging to make a generous contribution to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15?
So far, my campaign’s delegate strategy has paid off.
Dedicated supporters of mine have been turning out at their local caucuses and conventions to run as delegates to their Congressional District or State Conventions – where National Delegates will be elected.
It’s these delegates who will choose the Republican nominee at the National Convention in August.
That’s why it’s absolutely crucial my campaign has the funds to continue organizing and winning delegates in many states around the country.
And there are also important primaries in Texas and California coming up where hundreds of delegates will be up for grabs.
That’s why I’m counting on you to pledge to contribute to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15.
You and I have fought tooth and nail against the establishment for nearly an entire year now.
And the most important battles are happening right now.
So please, help me take my campaign to Restore America NOW to the Republican National Convention by pledging to make a generous contribution to my upcoming April 15 Money Bomb.
Let’s take our fight all the way to Tampa.
For Liberty,
Ron Paul
P.S. My campaign is holding a Money Bomb on April 15.
With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, my campaign must have the funds to continue winning delegates in many states all over the country.
So please pledge to contribute to my Money Bomb on April 15 to help me take our fight all the way to Tampa!
Kitsch-Posh EXCLUSIVE: Inside the SFO Yoga Room
Thursday, February 16th, 2012San Franciso International Airport recently unveiled a Yoga room, which is being called the first of its kind anywhere in the world.
One of your editors flew out of SFO on Thursday and had a chance to visit the Yoga room. How was the experience, you ask? Well, the pictures speak for themselves. Please note that the lights for the $15,000-$20,000 room went on and off at random intervals:
P.S.: No one bothered me as I was taking the pictures inside and outside of the room, even though I was next to the security checkpoints, looked young and somewhat middle-easternish, and only had a backpack on me. AMERICA!
P.P.S.: The plane from SFO to LAX was over 20 minutes late thanks to Obama Jam.
P.P.P.S.: No Yogic Flying, sadly.
Chavez doesn’t have cancer; he got a liposuction. EDIT: NEW DETAILS.
Sunday, July 31st, 2011My father told me that he believes the whole Hugo Chavez “cancer” thing is actually false and meant to bring him support for the upcoming elections. (Chavez is polling at about 50%, the opposition seems united and willing to present a single candidate, Chavez is currently ruling mostly by decree, and he recently said he doesn’t have a single cancerous cell in his body, among other things.). Fidel Castro is “the ultimate mastermind” capable of fomenting this plan to save the billions Cuba gets from Venezuela in subsidies, cheap oil, direct “loans,” etc. The only reason Chavez has lost weight is because of a liposuction.
When I asked my dad about the comments Chavez gave that he will probably begin to lose his hair as a result of the chemotherapy, my dad replied, “He’ll just shave it off.”
I am putting this out there so it will be time stamped. If this is ever proven true, I am expecting my dad to get a column in the New York Times adjacent to Paul Krugman’s musings.
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UPDATE:
Thanksgiving Dinner conversation:
Me: ”So, do you still think Chavez’s cancer is fake?”
Him: …
Me: …
Him: No.
Case closed.
When you don’t know how to handle money
Sunday, March 21st, 2010…it doesn’t matter how much you have.
Case in point: Almost 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy two years after they retire.
Laws_of_Armed_Conflict.PPT
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The pair of war crime prosecutors who indicted Charles Taylor back in 2003 have created a new firm, CW Group, that offered legal services to Guinea’s military regime. They made a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation, apparently aimed at educating the military’s officers and soldiers about the laws governing warfare (and maybe even get them to not violate them so egregiously?) [FP]
I guess if you’re going to have a military, you should teach your soldiers about the rules of war, somehow… But PowerPoint? Really?
One imagines that in the original .ppt version, these bullet points (pun intended?) “Civilians!” “Medical personnel!” and “Prisoners!” would fly in from the right side of the slide, with that car-zooming-and-screeching-to-halt sound effect.
Perhaps the excessive use of PowerPoint is the real war crime here…
Is Andrew Breitbart coming to take us down?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Breitbart, editor for the Drudge Report and a media figure in his own right, confronted Max Blumenthal at CPAC over Blumenthal’s article on James O’Keefe (summary: the dude who spied on ACORN maybe is somewhat of a white nationalist).
Breitbart’s not done yet. He is having so much fun he now wants to take down the “institutional left,” and he believes this will happen “within the next three weeks”:
He might be referring to his appearance on former Congressman (and radio personality!) Ernest Istook’s Harvard Institute of Politics study group, “Propaganda in American Politics.” Breitbart is scheduled to be a guest speaker next week, which falls within the deadline he gave on a Fox News show that attracts more viewers at 3AM than CNN at 8PM.
This is a must-not-miss event. What better way to take down the institutional left than to corrupt influence the minds of young Harvard intellectuals who will lead the institutions? It worked for Peggy Noonan.
(EDIT: Didn’t happen. Some anti-global warming guy came instead. The institutional left survives.)
[Media Matters via Gawker]
Wyclef Jean: Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year
Friday, February 19th, 2010The announcement comes on the heels of the Harvard for Haiti Benefit Concert, which raised over $37,000 for earthquake relief efforts. All the money from the concert will go to Partners in Health.
The Harvard Foundation and the Office for the Arts at Harvard are different entities, but wouldn’t it make sense — given that the OAH and concert organizers are using the arts to promote aid for Haiti — to donate at least part of the concert proceeds to Jean’s Yele Haiti organization?
The money will go to Partners most likely because its co-founder is Harvard professor Paul Farmer, a graduate from the med school. Or perhaps it’s due to the increasing amount of negative information coming out about Jean’s foundation.
Give Jean the voice, not the money?
Hopefully the Harvard Foundation will not have to regret its choice.
The 2010 speakers
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Commencement: Former Justice David Souter.
Class Day: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. (General feeling in our circles: “Several seniors expressed ambivalence about the choice—a sentiment that may stem from a lack of recognition of Amanpour’s name among some individuals.” Let’s hope her speech is a good one.)
Amy Bishop, the UAH Faculty Senate, and Campus Residency
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010A memorial page has been set up for the UAH victims [Legacy].
Amy Bishop, who had problems with “noise and kids” when she lived in MA, recently opposed a policy that would require all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus. She spoke against it during one of UAH’s Faculty Senate meetings late last year [al.com].
Most of the UAH Faculty Senate website is currently inaccessible, but Google again does its job [Minutes] [Senate Journal][Resolutions Passed] [Executive Committee Reports] [Upcoming Meetings] [Bills Pending]
Bishop’s Faculty Senate involvement, bills proposed, and other things we found after the jump:
Demon Sheep
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
A newly released ad from Carly Fiorina features a red-eyed “Demon Sheep” which is a guy dressed up as a sheep. Most of the ad sucks, so if you don’t want to watch all 3 minutes of it, skip ahead to 2:25. [WP]
R.I.P. Chris Brown’s Twitter account, killer named and at large
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009CNN writes the obituary. Let us remember the short but great life of Chris Brown’s Twitter, mechanicaldummy:
Brown began using Twitter as a way to connect to his fans after he pleaded guilty and was sentenced for beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Whether it was an attempt to garner favorable public relations in the wake of an image-shattering event or just a late adaptation to the microblogging craze, Brown had spent the months after the incident using his Twitter account to reach and connect with 172,366 followers.
He tweeted regularly thanking his fans for their continued support and sounding off after concerts.
It was unclear what specifically sparked Brown to delete his account, named “mechanicaldummy,” He had started the day with a normal “good morning” message to his fans.
12/14/09. NEVER FORGET.
Now they need to go back to more Tiger Woods coverage.






