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Hey, 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, 2012

This 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!

“Googlebot ignores crawl-delay ftl”

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

It sometimes pays to read a website’s robots.txt file, as it may contain rather funny comments about particular bots.   Case in point, Twitter’s robots.txt:

http://www.twitter.com/robots.txt

#Google Search Engine Robot
User-agent: Googlebot
# Crawl-delay: 10 -- Googlebot ignores crawl-delay ftl
Allow: /*?*_escaped_fragment_
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*/with_friends
...
# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file.

FTL may mean one of two things: “faster than light” or “for the lose.”  I am going to guess that since this likely has to do bandwidth usage, it is the latter.

Because here are at Kitsch-Posh we are all about TEH OPEN INTERWEBZ RDY 4 UR CRAWLING, here is our robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Ron Paul would be proud.

The Harvard Center for Ethics presents…Eliot Spitzer

Monday, November 9th, 2009

No, really:

SpitzerLecture

The title of the lecture is “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg — How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts.  What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?”  We guess he will talk about how different New York would be if he could take down Wall Street and whatnot.  That and/or prostitutes.  [Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard] [Office of the Arts at Harvard]

This stimulating video brought to you by the Speaker of the House

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

A couple of weeks old but it doesn’t have too many views to show for, especially considering the sheer degree of awesome which is this video [Nancy Pelosi's YouTube Channel, via somebody's LJ]:

Liveblogging WALNUTS!

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Replay after the jump!

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This Week In Liberty (08/03-08/09): The WTF Edition.

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

  • And his divinely annointed successor Barack proves himself equal to the same task, of taking the right opportunities to relax. [AP/Google]
  • Because he needs some rest in order to PWN. [Wonkette]
  • And how about everything else that Bush has managed to avoid screwing up? The Newsweek cover article might be worth a read if it weren’t by Zakaria. [Newsweek]

This Week In Liberty (07/27-08/02): His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Edition

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
  • HM the King, Barack I, will appoint The Hon. John McCain as the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition soon after the coronation, which was postponed to January next year. [CNN]
  • How many times have we mentioned that King Barack is The Chosen One? [YouTube]
  • McCain acknowledges His Majesty’s greatness with a new video [John McCain 2008, YouTube].
  • The Ron Paul Rocket will be the first mission to really put a man on the the Moon, because the Apollo “landings” were carefully orchestrated hoaxes. [RPSSG, courtesy of Wonkette]
  • The IOC insults China’s intelligence by claiming that they unilaterally censored the media’s Internet access without an implicit deal condoning the restrictions. [BBC]
  • Speaking of China, the only reason the country is hosting the Olympics is because it has a small penis. [Newsweek]
  • IRAQ IN THE OLYMPICS! =D [CNN]
  • Here, Reuters forgets to mention the standard formula for determining whether an eclipse is a good or bad omen: an unforeseen eclipse is bad—one predicted in advance is good. [Reuters]
  • Jesse Ventura will speak at St. Ron Paul’s counterconvention. Rockie Lynne (we confess: we’ve never heard of this guy before) will perform, and Tucker Carlson is the emcee. Where is Lyndon LaRouche? [AP/Google, Rally for the Republic]
  • One sacred rule of the international community is that a government must not negotiate a treaty which it cannot reasonably expect to ratify. Then it’s no surprise that the Doha round of talks collapsed, and we’re all just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the One. [IHT, AFP/Google, YouTube]
  • But hey, who needs Doha Round when globalization is already here? [WP]

This Week in Liberty (07/20-07/26): Mostly LOLympics Edition

Sunday, July 27th, 2008
  • King Barack tours his realm… [WP: synopsis in pictures, YouTube: Berlin Speech]
  • And God sent a mighty hurricane to greet John McCain at his oil rig photo-op. [IHT, Wonkette]
  • China, an old and decrepit civilization, has an old and decrepit population. [WP's J. Pomfret]
  • They also opened a “village” to “house” and provide “services” to over 16,000 athletes. Take a hint, FEMA. [China Daily]
  • Chinese Muslim Communists terrorists declare a Jihad on the Olympics. Holy Hu Jintao, China. [The Sunday Times]. The Muslims are still pissed off at this:
  • In an apparent payback for China’s humiliating World Cup pwnage in the hands of Iraq, Iraqi athletes have been banned from the Olympics. They are accused of political interference in sports. Really? government getting its hands in sports? The ruling party picking who’s on the National Olympic Committee? China couldn’t help but be simply appalled. appalled. [CNN]
  • We knew John Edwards was the worldly incarnation of transcendent evil, but does he really have to be so tasteless? [National Enquirer]
  • In India, the Communists are defeated, and Freedom wins. [BBC]
  • Radovan Karadzic, the Butcher of Bosnia and later the Hobo from Serbia, is captured. Pro-western politicians win. [BBC Profile, The Guardian]

This Week in Liberty (07/06-07/12)

Saturday, July 12th, 2008
  • Reverend Jesse Jackson (D-Opportunism) wants to crack some nuts. Bill O’Reilly takes the time to mention how awesome Fox News really is and why it’s better than liberal satanic channels CNN and MSOlbermanNBC.
  • Iran’s army uses the most advanced military technology, Photoshop.
  • John McCain’s economic adviser says that America has become “a nation of whiners.” McCain promises to banish the freedom-hater to anti-American Belarus. Perhaps to a secret CIA prison. Hopefully.