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NOVEMBER 22--An 81-year-old "birther" was arrested today and charged with threatening President Barack Obama’s life, according to federal court records.

Prosecutors allege that Elwyn Nels Fossedal was in a post office near his Wisconsin home last month when he announced, “If President Obama was here I would shoot him right there and kill him right now.”

When Secret Service agents confronted Fossedal about the threat--which was relayed to law enforcement by witnesses--he would not recant the statement and “repeated the threat using different words. He also made a number of additional threats towards the President,” according to a felony complaint.

A Secret Service investigation determined that Fossedal’s wife Margaret Ann--to whom he had been married nearly 57 years--died in early-October and that “he is displacing his grief on her loss with anger towards” Obama and other public officials being protected by the Secret Service.

An investigator noted that Fossedal “is proficient in the use of various firearms.”

Pictured above, Fossedal this morning made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Madison, where a magistrate judge ordered him detained. If convicted of the threat, he faces a maximum of five years in prison.

Fossedal, a retired Pfizer employee, appears to be a “birther” based on comments he has posted online. A Rush Limbaugh fan, Fossedal has also called for Obama’s impeachment over the Affordable Care Act and declared that, “We need to throw the Muslim in the White House, OUT.” [...] Continued at TheSmokingGun.




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Rude, crude, and totally bipartisan, last night's New Rules skewered targets both on the Left and the Right.

However Maher saved his best smackdown for those who worship at the alter of Ronald Reagan.

In response to Sarah Palin's statement that there are no Ronald Reagan's around today for her to put her faith in, Maher said "When Reagan was elected, Sarah Palin was barely sixteen, probably pregnant, but still in third grade."

Then Maher goes on to unfavorably compare the Rooster Cogburn image of Ronald Reagan to the Don Draper image of JFK. Yeah, THAT should win him more fans with the Reagan sycophants that populate the GOP.

And speaking of Reagan sycophants here is Palin behind the scenes as she sits in preparation for her interview with Chris Wallace, in which she will pimp her book and bitch about the Martin Bashir comments, to be broadcast tomorrow on Fox.

As you can see she has her personal flotation devices firmly attached just in case she gets in over her head and starts floundering.

P.S. Just in case HBO decides to be a party pooper you can still find the video by clicking here.

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Courtesy of the Seattle Times:

Susan Hutchison, the new chair of the state Republican party, gets a salary of about $75,000 a year — substantially less than the $95,000 earned by her predecessor, Kirby Wilbur.

But when Hutchison tried last weekend to convince the GOP executive committee to boost her pay to Wilbur’s level, the conversation turned ugly and Hutchison’s request was rebuffed.

Hutchison bemoaned the decision in an internal party memo obtained by The Seattle Times.

In the memo, sent Monday to the state GOP executive board, Hutchison wrote the “positive spirit” of the GOP meeting had “soured late in the day” when her salary request came up.

The pay for the Republican chairman’s position had been cut by GOP leaders — citing budget issues — at a meeting just prior to Hutchison’s election in August.

But Hutchison argued that vote had violated the party’s bylaws and could be viewed as “discriminatory and vindictive” — and even play into the hands of Democrats who have talked up the GOP’s problems among female voters.

“The pay cut defies the concept of equal pay for equal work, playing into the ‘war on women’ narrative against Republicans,” Hutchison wrote. She added she’d personally raised $22,000 from 18 non-Republican Party donors from her personal list of contacts — “which more than covers” the $20,000 pay raise.

“I left the meeting demoralized, and so did my hardworking staff. I heard that some of you felt beat up and angry, while others were very pleased. This kind of division over something so minor is not what will move us forward,” Hutchison wrote.

Of course after this kerfuffle Republican sources are claiming that they were planning to cut this salary all along and it had nothing to with the fact that Hitchison is a chick, and for her part Hutchison is trying to minimize the fact that she just ran head long into the GOP "War on Women," but I think we know what's really going on here.

Let's face it in the Republican world having ovaries is a preexisting condition, and the men believe that the doors of opportunity are pried open with their Viagra engorged penises. (Or a gun, same thing really.)

Should I even bother to ask, yet again, WHY women bother to join the Republican party?

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Courtesy of the Telegraph:

Rob Ford, the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, has a higher approval rating than Barack Obama, according to a survey.

A Forum Research survey of 1,049 Toronto voters found that 42 per cent approved of the job Mr Ford has been doing as mayor of Canada's largest city.

Although it is a two point drop from two weeks ago, it is up from the 39 per cent approval rating he had before he admitted smoking crack cocaine.

By comparison, earlier this week Mr Obama's popularity slumped to an all-time low, with only 37 per cent of Americans approving of the job he is doing.

The result suggests that Mr Ford could still be competitive in next year's municipal election, although only 33 per cent of those polled said they would vote for him in 2014.

I swear I could watch this gif all day.

Seriously? This guy polls higher than President Obama?

I cannot tell if I am more concerned that there is something wrong with Canadians, or that there is something wrong with Americans.




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Courtesy of Mediaite:

Sarah Palin will address the controversial comments made by about her by MSNBC’s Martin Bashir for the first time on the November 24th edition of Fox News Sunday. Fox News’ Chris Wallace is also expected to interview Palin about the Affordable Care Act and her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.

After Palin made her own controversial remarks comparing America’s debt crisis to “slavery,” Bashir delivered a monologue on his MSNBC program in which he suggested that, in order to truly understand the horrors of slavery, someone should defecate into Palin’s mouth. Bashir later apologized, but, despite continued outrage from Palin’s defenders, MSNBC did not take any disciplinary action against the host.

Palin evidently decided to grant Wallace the first interview on the matter after Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly revealed on Wednesday night that she had turned down his invitation to discuss the matter on The O’Reilly Factor.

Trashed by Bashir, slammed by O'Reilly, and pissed off at NBC, oh you just KNOW this is going to be good television!

It never fails to amaze me that there can be THAT mush vitriol and hate packed in such an emaciated frame.

I have seen insects with thicker legs than those.




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Sheriff Joe Arpaio was interviewed by Western Center for Journalism and provided the following comment:

"The birth certificate investigation, which we started two years ago and is still in progress. And we're finding more fire, and that's another issue..... I will say that I do not get a Christmas card from the President....."


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