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First read this…

Then read this.

(h/t egregious for second link)

September 16th, 2008 at 11:23pm Posted by Eli

Instant Karma

See if you can spot the irony:

He met her in the bar of the swank hotel and invited her to his room. Once there, the woman fixed the drinks and told him to get undressed.

And that, the delegate to the Republican National Convention told police, was the last thing he remembered.

When he awoke, the woman was gone, as was more than $120,000 in money, jewelry and other belongings.

(…)

In a statement released today, Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, 29, of Denver, put the figure at much less.

“It’s embarrassing to admit that I was a target of a crime. I was drugged and had about $50,000 of personal items stolen, not the inflated number that the media is reporting from an inaccurate police report,” he said.

“As a single man, I was flattered by the attention of a beautiful woman who introduced herself to me. I used poor judgment.”

(…)

The haul included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring, a necklace valued at $5,000, earrings priced at $4,000 and a Prada belt valued at $1,000, police said.

(Poor judgment?  By a Republican?  That’s unpossible!)  Now here’s the beauty part:

During the convention, Schwarz wasn’t shy about talking to the media. In an Associated Press article about Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech, Schwartz was quoted as saying that as far as oratorical skills go, McCain “has more experience in his little pinkie” than Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

In an interview filmed the afternoon of Sept. 3 and posted on the Web site LinkTV.org, Schwartz was candid about how he envisioned change under a McCain presidency.

“Less taxes and more war,” he said, smiling. He said the U.S. should “bomb the hell” out of Iran because the country threatens Israel.

Asked by the interviewer how America would pay for a military confrontation with Iran, he said the U.S. should take the country’s resources.

“We should plant a flag. Take the oil, take the money,” he said. “We deserve reimbursement.”

A few hours after the interview, an unknown woman helped herself to Schwartz’s resources.

It is so refreshing to see one of these Grand Theft Auto Conservatives get a taste of his own ideology.

(h/t Blue Texan)

September 16th, 2008 at 06:48pm Posted by Eli

Still More San Diego Air & Space Photoblogging

More from the San Diego Air & Space Museum – I am rigorously following the shadowy & mysterious Codename V’s color/B&W recommendations this time:

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September 16th, 2008 at 11:36am Posted by Eli

They Got Over It

Hey, remember back in 2004 when Republicans had a Giant Shrieking Hissy Fit because a couple of random jackasses sent MoveOn homemade commercials comparing Dubya to Hitler?

They got over it.

(h/t Elliott)

September 16th, 2008 at 07:24am Posted by Eli