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Well, probably not you, since you read this blog, but this is a pretty good summary of how the CRA allowed the Dims to turn Fannie and Freddie into their own little slush fund. It’s not the whole of the current economic crisis, but it’s a big, fat, smelly chunk.
Warner Music made You Tube take the first version down, so watch it while you can.Replaced the You Tube version with Live Leak. You Tube can snack on my sack. (Thanks, Nigel) Just say hell no to the bailout. Also, say hell no to Warner Music products. Their empire is long overdue a good crumbling.
Police responding to a call about 3:20 a.m. today found 64-year-old Robert McNally on the hallway floor with his arm around the neck of 52-year-old David T. Meyers, who died at the scene.
Police spokesman Sgt. Matthew Mount says Meyers had a heart condition and may have had a heart attack. An autopsy is planned.
Police said Meyers was naked except for a mask and latex gloves and had entered the home through a window with rope, condoms and a knife.
Police said the girl awoke and saw the man in her room and screamed.
Meyers had served 10 years in prison for criminal confinement and sexual deviate conduct and was wanted in Boone County for failure to register as a sex offender.
Police do not anticipate any charges against McNally.
Good riddance, you worthless sack of sub-human debris.
And kudos to you, Robert McNally! You have provided us with some good news on this Murky Monday. If only this could happen to more sex offenders. One down, at least.
Well, really, there was none from me. Despite the debate (which B. Hussein Osama won if you work for NBC, MSNBC, Reuters or AP, or McCain won if you work for Drudge or Fox News), the economic meltdown and President Junior’s attempt to sell us down the river for 20 pieces of silver, and yet another pathetic performance on the gridiron from The Great Pumpkin’s Vols, I’ve been too busy to pay attention. Things should resume to normal half-assed blogging this week. It’s hard to stay in touch with current affairs when you’re living in Fantasyland™.
I am not a party hack. Mike Kernell is my friend and I am standing by him. I KNOW he had nothing to do with this. Whatever his son did or didn’t do, Mike had nothing to do with any wrong doings.
As for your need to call me names, go join Six Meat Buffet, they do that there just to be cruel and evil. (And yes, G-dless–just ask them if they believe in G-d)
Terry is too classy to be cruel for the sake of being cruel to a fellow blogger.
But by all means, go join the chorus of G-dless haters at 6 Meat.
To my knowledge, Cranky is a Jew and Preston is a Christian. Make that a chorus of one.
They told me when Bush was elected that civil rights would be rolled back for people who weren’t Christofascist godbotherers, and they were right!
As Sharon’s on one of her tears about what a mean ol’ meany I am, it’s important to make a few distinctions in regards to the investigation of one David “Orville Redenbacher” Kernell. This investigation is not about The Last Honest Man ™, Memphis (of all places) rep. Mike Kernell. This is about his son and what he appears to have done.
The only comparison I’ve made about the sins of the son on the father is the luxurious treatment he’s getting by someone who laid on Palin thick about her underage daughter being pregnant as being a reflection on her. Last time I checked, pregnancy wasn’t a felony.
Hypocrisy is a stinky perfume but it’s being splashed on like so much Charlie in Cobb Country.
Two, as Sharon has taken it upon herself to be the Kernell Family’s official spokesperson and as they have circled the wagons, called in the lawyers, and dropped all communications with the media - I only have one question.
Did he do it?
Not “can you prove he did it”? Because judging by his choice of attorneys it looks like he’s going to try and scapegoat somebody else. Will there be digital DNA evidence in an investigation where circumstantial evidence is damning enough? They will either have to claim somebody spoofed his account, that one of his roommates did it, or that someone broke into the apartment and did it.
Mind you, when your name is “Kernell” and you change the password on the account to “popcorn” you might just want to go ahead and plea bargain now. Save yourself a lot of legal fees and family embarrassment. >>> Continue Reading
Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.
Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.
It is also likely that the PR firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign.
It’s too long to quote at length but needless to say you would have to spin like a gyroscope to pretend that the Obama campaign was unaware and not orchestrating the smear campaign in violation of campaign finance laws.
Chicago style - good for deep dish pizza. Bad for politics.
Cheers for everybody else who worked with them on this campaign: Jane, Dan, Ace, and Patterico.
Jeers for every leftwing blogger who does not realize that any credibility you thought you had just got pissed away by a bloggertory cabal of shills who make Alan Freed look like the portrait of integrity.
It’s increasingly one of America’s most popular past times. So much so that major leftwing websites often have to close their comments sections when someone on the Right dies. Have we learned nothing?
Who doesn’t drink their lunch once in a great while?
As late as 2007 Biden said that the man who was involved in the fatal crash that killed his wife and daughter was a “guy who allegedly … drank his lunch” before he got behind the wheel of his truck and in 2001 the TV show Inside Edition aired a tape of Biden saying the truck driver “stopped to drink instead of drive.”
We give him credit for being half right, shouldn’t we? That would be the right thing to do wouldn’t it? Except if you happen to belong to the family of the person he’s exploiting:
This drunk driving accusation, though, is simply a Biden creation and every time this claim is uttered it pains the family of the poor, maligned man involved in the tragic accident with Biden’s family, truck driver Curtis C. Dunn. Gannett owned DelewareOnline reports the anguish that Biden’s continued lie causes the man’s family every time it is uttered.
“To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears,” Dunn’s daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. “My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he’s not here to defend himself.”
In truth, there was no finding of alcohol being involved in this tragic incident. In fact, some investigators thought at the time that the accident was caused by Biden’s wife pulling out into the intersection not having seen Dunn’s truck bearing down upon her. It was simply a horrible accident with no blame saying Dunn was at fault, much less drunk.
As Hamill watched a recording of the Inside Edition report Wednesday, she gasped when the clip of Biden’s comments from Iowa came on screen.
After reading a News Journal account of Biden’s 2001 speech at UD, Hamill sent Biden a letter on behalf of her father. The newspaper story included Biden’s description of getting the call that his wife and daughter had died, but not his comments about Dunn.
Hamill said her note to the senator described how Dunn was affected by the accident.
Printed on the senator’s letter head and dated Oct. 11, 2001, the response from Biden reads: “I apologize for taking so long to acknowledge your thoughtful and heartfelt note,” Biden wrote. “All that I can say is I am sorry for all of us and please know that neither I nor my sons feel any animosity whatsoever.”
What he meant to say is: “All that I can say is that I am sorry for me. Please know that I will run your father’s name through the mud whenever it gives me an opportunity to play the sympathy card even though my wife was likely responsible for the accident.”
We know how some people feel so strongly about this subject. Please refer all comments to Biden.Senate.Gov.
It took a lot of grueling investigation work to find that Senate website with a phone number on it. If anyone needs The Slanderer of Scranton’s e-mail address you can just contact me personally* .
I, however, will not let people slander my good friend Joe Biden who is constantly slandering Dunn and his family for cheap political points so I’m going to close the comments.
/Because I’m seasoned like that.
Well, maybe I’ll open the comments if some FReepers show up.
2nd and 3rd String cannot be any worse. Please, oh merciful Lord (the Obamessiah), from my mouth to your ears, from your telekinetic brainwaves to the talking hot dog bun in The Great Pumpkin’s fanny pack. Please, for all that is Orange outside of prison jumpsuits and traffic cones, set Jonathan Crompton down until further notice:
It’s halftime at Neyland Stadium, and one team looks like it’s serious about winning a championship. The other looks like it’s serious about … well, being the laughing stock of the SEC.
We all make mistakes. Hell, I bought the wrong kind of Wet Jet hardwood floor solution at the store 2 years ago and I haven’t heard the end of it yet.
After jockeying for position with my fellow Nashvillains for those extra casting positions in the remake of Mad Max. I knew it was time to head back to homebase when this kind gentleman gave me the international sign language for “Pull over, I’d like to discuss the environmental implications of drilling in ANWR and/or your ANUS”.
Not in my backyard, buddy.
I’m gonna call up Jimmy The Goose and hang at the homestead while the Vols get killed by the Gators.
In case The Knight Rider wants to come by and gloat, I’ll have something ready for his ass too.
“But enough of words, actions speak louder than,” said Obama, pulling a bowler-clad campaign volunteer to the stage by his suspenders for a demonstration. “Action now. Observe all.”
After swinging a hobnailed boot into the aide’s yarbles, the stadium crowd erupted in cheers.
“I’m siii-inging in the rain, just siii-inging in the rain,” noted Obama, cheerfully dancing around the hunched-over aide. “Welly welly well what have we here? A naughty neighborman what has him a McCain yard sign?”
“Looks like a job for me old woodly comrades Hope and Change,” he added, gleefully drubbing the man with his trademark twin baseball bats to the crowd’s rhythmic chants of “Yes We Can, Yes We Can.”
“We are the Droogs we’ve been waiting for,” he concluded as the P.A. system struck up Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the new official campaign song. “Lets get ‘em boys!”
Today’s Old Media should be collectively run over with a steamroller.
When Obama talks about his version of “god” (a/k/a, himself), it’s enlightenment. When President Clifford prayed that God watch over the troops he sent in his play wars, it was necessary. When JFK and FDR prayed for the protection of our troops, our country and for victory, it was leadership and strength.
When a *gasp* Republican utters the same phrases, they’re Theocrats bent on invading the wombs and bedrooms of the country’s liberal elites (and those dumb enough to fall in line with them). Maybe bedwetting little media shits like Charlie Gibson are so taken aback by the sincere mention of God because they’re part vampire? It’s hard to say without examining the DNA evidence, but I think it’s time to start taking samples and doing what needs to be done.
It was a mysterious week last week at Neyland Stadium. The family and I had a good time, but home-opener attendance had to be in the low 80K’s. Even in the dark days of 2005 I don’t remember seeing this many empty seats. I had a feeling something was up when we kept walking by scalpers offering “buy one, get one free”. Not a good sign for the UT A.D.
Unfortunately, after this week’s slaughter, scalpers will be paying you to take the tickets off their hands. Gaytors 44 Vols 21. Some folks are still convinced that Fulmer has one more rabbit to pull out of his hat, but I believe that the rabbit he’s going to pull out is going to have been dead for weeks and will be covered in maggots.
Last week I did pretty well, going 4/5, but was dead wrong on ND/Michigan. Didn’t see that coming.
Elsewhere…
LSU 22 Auburn 14 - Auburn looked a lot worse than I expected against Mississippi State. Expect an LSU victory. This will give Auburn something to be pissed off about next week when the Vols crest the hills of Opelika.
Sun Devils 27 Georgia 24 - Stafford is not the horse that Kelley Washington was. Overrated Bulldaggas go down in the desert. Or possibly not.
Alabama 28 Arkansas 17 - It’s the battle of the SEC teams with exactly the same uniforms. I can never tell who has the ball in this one so I’m not watching.
Ole Miss 19 Vandy 14 - Ole Miss still has the hottest - and dumbest - chicks in the SEC. Oh, and they’ll win this one.
When Jeff Fisher announced last week that we’ll be staying with Kerry Collins into the forseeable future, I thought it was the right move. Once VY spends a few weeks in therapy and learns that he’s not the center of the universe, we can move him back up to second string. The Titans’ defense is looking better than I expected - particularly up front - and even with Collins, I’m starting to smell playoffs.
Luckily, we have a week off this week - Titans 27 Texans 14.
I sucked out loud in last weeks pro picks - 2/5. Hopefully this week will be better.
Dallas 34 Packers 31 - That Cowboys/Eagles game Monday night was excellent. This one should be just as good.
Denver 24 ‘Aints 17 - I’m starting to think that Jay Cutler may indeed be the second coming of Elway. Or at least Craig Morton.
Nigel’s Chargers 29 Jets 14 - If the refs don’t interfere in this one and try to fix the game for Brett “Golden Boy” Favre, the Chargers should roll.
Eagles 31 Steelers 21 - The Steelers were underwhelming against the Browns last week and the Iggles actually looked pretty good. Steelers go down in the battle of Pennsyltucky.
UCLA BET UPDATE:
In fine Six Meat bet-losing tradition, I am making good on my promise to our brother Nigel. UCLA beat us down fair and square three weeks ago (and then lost to BYU 59-0, doesn’t that make us look even better) so it is my duty to don the UCLA colors. Thanks to Nigel for sending me the shirt.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal email account.
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Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts and whether he was in custody.
Reports that Palin’s e-mail had been hacked bounced across blogs and into the news on Thursday.
If David does turn out to be involved in hacking, Mike Kernell had nothing to do with it. Anyone who knows Kernell, knows he doesn’t even email because he hates computers and is computer illiterate. That’s the irony. Everyone who knows Mike is chuckling because he hates computers.
There are very few people I would vouch for, but Mike Kernell is one of them, and if it turns out his son did something wrong, Mike had nothing to do with it.
And I reiterate, as of this moment, NO ONE has contacted Mike or his son from law enforcement and as of now it is an Internet rumor.
UPDATE: 7:27 PM. If you’re in the press and want Mike Kernell’s phone number, email me at MissSharonCobb@aol.com.
Quick, Mike Kernell, a Government Official ™, is talking about government business with a local moron. Someone must eavesdrop on their conversations and e-mails in violation of all federal and state laws on the subject!
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-601: A person who is a party to a wire, oral or electronic communication, or who has obtained the consent of at least one party, can lawfully record a communication and divulge the contents of the recorded communication unless he has a criminal or tortious purpose for doing so. Violations are punishable as felonies with jail sentences of between two and 12 years and fines not exceeding $5,000. Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-602, 40-35-111.
Anyone whose communications have been unlawfully intercepted can sue to recover the greater of actual damages, $100 per day of violation or $10,000, along with punitive damages, attorney fees and litigation costs. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-603.
Recording or disseminating a communication carried out through a cellular or cordless telephone, or disseminating the contents with knowledge of their illegal origin, without the consent of at least one party, can be punished as a felony with a potential prison sentence of between one and six years and a fine not to exceed $3,000. Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-604, 40-35-111.
Let’s step back for a moment and consider what this says about the press’s attitude toward privacy. A few years ago, the New York Times revealed the existence of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, a theretofore-secret effort to prevent attacks by listening in on overseas terrorists’ phone conversations. In defense of the Times’s action, we heard a lot of pious proclamations about privacy: George Bush might want to snoop on your phone conversations or emails, and the press was merely being vigilant in protecting your privacy.
Yet the Sharon Cobb AP, in reporting on its own role in the current story, tells us that it refuses to cooperate with the Secret Service’s investigation of the privacy breach. Granted, the AP probably doesn’t have that much to contribute to the investigation. But the symbolism is telling, and surely deliberate. It suggests the press places a far lower premium on privacy than on its own privileges and its adversarial attitude toward government (or perhaps toward Republicans).
Especially telling in this regard is the AP’s reference to the emails as “leaked.” (The Boston Globe uses the verb leak in its headline for the AP report.) Usually this term refers to a government agency or other organization’s failure to keep a secret. A leaker is someone who is authorized to possess information but not to disclose it.
These emails were not leaked, they were stolen.
Lying hypocrite. Everyone can thank me for cutting this problem off early on. Attention whore. Read the comments.
Oh! Oh! Pick me, Mr. Klanheider!
Kudos to the Arnold Horshack of Nashville’s Leftardium.
But News Channel 3 has confirmed the Anchorage division of the FBI has contacted the Memphis division and an investigation is underway.
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Kernell wouldn’t comment on whether or not there’s any truth to what the bloggers are saying, but says he has talked to his son about the rumors.
He said, “Now, son. The most important thing is Honesty because I would never rob, rape, steal, run a red light or lie to a telemarketer*. Nor are your actions a reflection on my bad parenting like Sarah Palin’s pregnant (whore) daughter who she hid the first (whore, out of wedlock) baby as her own. The first thing we need to agree with our attorneys on is what the definition of Honesty is in this particular case.”
Friday was a depressing day politically speaking. I had lunch with two friends/co-workers. One is a die-hard liberal and the other is a younger guy who still believes the that liberalism is the way you show you care.
When the discussion turned to Sarah Palin, what I heard was an uninterruped stream of talking points straight from NBC or the Obama camp, which is obviously hard to distinguish.
All the points, from her scary Fundamentalism through not knowing the Bush Doctrine down to the semi-legitimate point about her original support for the Bridge to Nowhere, were covered.
I was especially flabbergasted that the younger friend thought there might actually be something to Trig being Sarah’s granddaughter.
Although I’ve been quite pleased that thanks to the Internet, these assaults are often debunked right away, such as the claim that she slashed special needs programs or abused her per-diem by reimbursing for days spent at home, the troubling fact remains that the MSM still has quite a bit of sway in shaping opinion. I remember many infuriating moments watching the talking heads lay on the slant thick and leaving me with no recourse save throwing a shoe at the television.
In Bernard Goldberg’s debut book, Bias, he illustrates the point perfectly:
Chapter 5 is a good example of how the media exploits an issue and uses it for political persuasion of the public. During the Reagan and Bush years, there were constant stories depicting the plight of the homeless in America. Many of these stories used grossly exaggerated numbers, to make the public think that the problem was far worse than it really was. The reason, of course, was to make the public think that people became homeless as a result of the man in the White House.
Then, a miracle occurred: Bill Clinton was elected to the presidency and PRESTO! The number of documentaries dedicated to the homeless dropped off to near zero. Overnight, all these homeless people found a warm, cozy place to live and the problem of homelessness was solved, thanks to our good buddy and humanitarian, Bill Clinton
Those days are thankfully going down the memory hole, but the number of people getting the news from the Internet is still a sliver of the overall pie.
McCain’s choice in Palin was, in my opinion, a smart move to energize the base. As McCain played the middle with a good chance of picking up moderates who see Obama for the hard-leftist he is, the dispirited conservatives needed a reason to come out this November.
My friends were already pre-disposed to dislike McCain and Palin from the get go and I doubt that these accusations or evidence to the contrary will change anything. On the other hand, there a plenty of people like my wife who have found motivation to participate in the political process again.
What does that mean for the MSM? I don’t know except that maybe people are smarter than the newrooms think they are.
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Back by unpopular demand for 2008, it’s Football Friday! Vegas bookies now officially have pee running down their legs - not unlike Chrissy Matthews from PMSNBC.
As all of us in Big Orange Country try and figure out the logic behind the Fulmer raise/extension, the team has been workin’ like heck getting ready for UAB. But we can’t steam forward without acknowledging the catastrophe that took place out at UCLA a few weeks ago.
The Vols’ game plan was to come out throwing and trying to get Crompton into a rhythm, which never happened. The offense looked like absolute crap. The defense, however, looked good for a half.
True to the traditions of the Great Pumpkin, the only adjustments we made at halftime were to change the things that were working and continue trying the things that weren’t. So we backed our defense - particularly our excellent secondary - off the ball and allowed Kevin Craft to pick us apart underneath. Additionally, when we decided we were finally going to focus on the run, we put together the only good drive of the night, which ended in a Foster fumble deep in Bruins territory.
Since Fulmer was once outcoached by a bag of peanuts thrown onto the sidelines by a Vanderbilt fan, it’s no surprise that he was light work for Norm Chow and Rick Neuheisel.
Lucky for Fulmer, his talent will carry him this week against UAB… Tennessee 37, UAB 17..
Elsewhere…
Southern Cal 33, Ohio State 14 - I would have taken USC in this one even before OSU RB Tookie Williams got hurt.
Auburn 29, Mississippi State 10 - Auburn is working out the kinks, but will have little trouble against Sylvester the Cat’s woeful Bulldogs.
Georgia 38, South Carolina 20 - If SC can drop their drawers for Vandy, Georgia will slap them silly. Silly! Sorry Steve, looks like another rough year for your visors.
Michigan 24, Notre Dame 21 - I used to dig this game, back when both teams didn’t suck out loud. Michigan will suck slightly less than the Irish and squeak out a win.
Poor Vince Young.
He’s spent his whole life as a pampered, ultra-coddled star athlete and now that he’s run into a little adversity, he’s run off and tried to hide from Coach Fisher down at Printers’ Alley.
A little booing and the media starts hitting his mom up with questions like “what’s wrong with your baby boy?”
If VY doesn’t grow up real soon and grow some thicker skin, he’ll need to head up to play for the Toronto Argonauts where nobody gives a crap. Just think if he’d been drafted by a team in real sports town like NYC or Philly?
With Kerry Collins at the helm this week, the Titans will squeak by Ocho Dumbass and his Cincy Bungles - Titans 24 Bengals 21.
Elsewhere in the big leagues…
New York Jets 23, New England 14 - I can’t stand Favre and his over-inflated ego and grandstanding, but he’s damn good. And now that Tom Brady will be off the field brewing up some more outside children, it’s going to be a rough season for the Pats. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Cowboys 27, Iggles 24 - This should be a good one. I’ll be tuned in just to see if Donovan McChicken and T.O. get into a scrap. That would be sweet.
Minnesota 27, Indianapolis 20 - The Colts got a wake-up call last week and I don’t believe Minnesota is going to let them up off the mat quite yet. Could it be that Peyton’s diminished surrounding cast of characters is finally coming home to roost? I guess you’ll have to axe Rev. Wright about that one.
Browns 22, Steelers 19 - I may only be picking the Browns because I want to see the upset, but I always love these old AFC Central rivalries. The Browns have enough in their tank to pull off the upset, but the Steelers could just as easily stomp them. It’s picks like this that demonstrate why I don’t have a 1-900 betting hotline.
Have a good weekend, freaks. I’ll be down at Neyland Stadium tomorrow. I’ll be wearing orange so look for me.
Even though the Old Media, Dim-O-Cracks and blame-America-firsters at Gooooooogle will do their best to sweep 9/11 under the rug today, there are others who are remembering.
Even Silence is remembering. Technically, he counts as new media, despite his Old Media connections.
CAIR will mark today’s anniversary by taking even more pride in its collective persecution complex and filing more lawsuits against all us mean, oppressive, hateful Americans who caused 9/11 to happen in the first place. Maybe Omarosa Obama is right, maybe we are just a mean, nasty country with nothing of which to be proud.
Larry Grossman, a former president of NBC News, said that MSNBC has “been doing very well as the liberal antithesis to Fox, everyone knows that,” he said. “But at some point standards and journalistic integrity have to take over.”
