Noz’s post, reruns again? proves that occasionally even a winger will accidentally tell the truth.

Essentially, Tucker Carlson admits that he isn’t really a journalist, because the fact that he featured the video in question on his MSNBC show in 2007 is consistent with his claim that the media didn’t cover it in 2007. Obviously putting it on Carlson’s show was the same thing as ignoring it, because no one watched his show.

Actually, MSNBC lends credence to Carlson’s claim, as they canceled the show in 2008 for poor to nonexistent ratings.

At least, that’s what I got from his explanation, but Noz has the quote that he verified from the video.

I do take exception to Carlson’s claim of an ‘exclusive’, as this kind of nonsensical whining is characteristic of a number of wingers.

The Local Puppy Trainer reports on the local problem: Voter fraud investigation underway

“We found around 100 and the state attorney took all of them,” said Santa Rosa County Supervisor Ann Bodenstein.

Most of the tainted forms bore the names of residents already registered. Whoever turned them in was attempting to change a date of birth, an address or a signature, Bodenstein said.

One form bore the name of a woman “buried about six months ago,” she said.

“It was the biggest mess I’ve ever seen,” she said. “These were flagrant. Anybody who knows anything about voter applications at all would have caught these.”

Bodenstein’s office also found numerous instances where voter signatures appeared to be forged.
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Though the Republican Party of Florida has taken much of the flak statewide for the flawed work of Strategic Allied Consulting, neither Bodenstein nor Paul Lux, her Okaloosa County counterpart, believe GOP officials, particularly locally, deserved the majority of the blame.

“I don’t think you can necessarily affix the blame to the RPOF. If you hire somebody to do a job, there are rules you give them to go by,” Lux said. “Strategic Allied either did not understand the scope or they didn’t train the people they signed up to be registrars. I’d place more blame on Strategic than I would on the RPOF.”

Bodenstein said there was evidence that some of the suspicious forms turned in to her office were registration applications collected by the state Democratic Party.

In case there were any doubts, yes, both Bodenstein and Lux, like all of the local politicians are Republicans, and no, there was no evidence of any registration fraud by the Dems presented. Actually, I would be surprised of any signs of life in the Democratic Party in either county given the 4 to 1 advantage the Republicans have in both counties.

Position: 37.4N 30.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northeast [035°] near 24 mph [39 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 75 kph].
Wind Gusts: 65 mph [100 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1002 mb.

Currently about 185 miles [ 300 km] West-Southwest of the Azores.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Azores.

The Azores will start feeling the effects of Nadine late tonight or early tomorrow. The storm is weakening.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 19.3N 42.2W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [335°] near 12 mph [19 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [ 65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1006 mb ↓.

Currently about 1220 miles [1960 km] West of the Cape Verde Islands.

They don’t expect much from this system, but it met the minimum standards for a tropical cyclone.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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I’ve nearly missed the American Library Associations Banned Books Week that runs through October 6^th.

The quality of the books that get banned these days is not up to standards of days gone by because the book-burners have gotten so thin-skinned. The most memorable local case of recent years was a campaign to ban several ‘graphic novels’ from a local library because this woman’s son had gained illegal access to a restricted [Adults Only] are of the library and was ’emotionally distressed’ by what he found there.

Of course, the child’s emotional distress had nothing to do with the fact that the librarian caught him, voided his library card, and referred the matter to the local police as a burglary. 😈