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Just what is it about this phenomenon of women killing women for their close-to-term fetuses? The shrinks had better be working on why something like this happens, and the sociologists had better start talking about how we stop it.  Not only do pregnant moms have to worry about abusive boyfriends or husbands, but they now have to wonder about friends, acquaintances as well as total strangers.

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 This morning I saw Leonard Nimoy on The View.  In fact, I've been seeing Nimoy almost all week on shows because of the promotion for the new Star Trek film in which we see Kirk, Spock and the rest of the bridge crew as young men and women.  Nimoy is in the flick as an older Ambassador Spock.  "Older" is right.  Leonard Nimoy is now 78, his Spock voice is thinner with age, and he's on his third wife.  His latest foray into photography features very large women.  James Doohan, Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry, and DeForest Kelley have all passed.  It could be that this is Nimoy's last Trek appearance, but as he said today, never say never.  

I think that there is more affection for Nimoy than there is for William Shatner; more affection for Spock than there is for Kirk.  I think it's because the character of Spock revises the view of biracial people; he chooses to be Vulcan; he chooses to use his intellect before speaking.  Yet Spock cannot help but display his humanity: his geekiness, his irritation, the significant lifting of his eyebrows, and the way he would signal or mask his emotions by saying, "Fascinating," or "Interesting."  Not so noted was his quiet understanding of and affection for people like Christopher Pike, his mother Amanda, Flint, and women like Droxine and Liviana, the Romulan commander, and even for Tribbles and the Horta.  

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Photos by guydonges of Madison

It may look big, but it wasn't.  I was there until just now (12:37 p.m); I am back in my room in Madison, just across the street from the Wisconsin Capitol Building.  I'd say that there were hundreds of people there.  Possibly a couple of thousand, if you include those coming out for lunch and watching for a bit.  And scary, if you ask me.  I wish you could have seen the sign carried by one protester: "OBAMA'S PLAN = WHITE SLAVERY." I can only hope that the MSM gets it halfway right about how "successful" these "tea bag parties" actually were. The Faux Noise radio affiliate and the ABC TV station in Green Bay were representing...

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This is the only way we see her these days; long before Paris Hilton, she was famous for becoming infamous.  Earlier, she was trying to make a little money or a little noise making diet commercials, telling cruise ship audiences her story, or doing reality shows or walking the red carpet.  Now she just wants to be left alone, but now they're going to make a movie about Bill Clinton and her.  It never ends.  They haven't found someone yet to play her: oval faced, long, rich dark hair, heavy-hipped.  They may not; they may just use footage.  Monica Samille Lewinsky is now 35--middle-aged now, one might say--but she still doesn't have much of a life or a career to show for it.

I don't know how I managed not to see or hear about this atrocity.  It must have been all the ecstasies over Obama's election to the Presidency that the news was drowned out.  In fact, the murders were discovered some two weeks before.  Someone over at Jack & Jill Politics linked the story update yesterday; of course, the Reichwing have been braying about this for all its been worth since November.   Under oath during the preliminary hearing of the four black Marines charged with the killings, a top investigator who surveyed the murder scene confirmed that  race was a factor in the murder of the Pietrzaks.  The Marines were jealous and enraged that Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak had just married their sergeant and superior officer, Jan Pawel Pietrzak-- and refused to give them the time of day.

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Eliot Spitzer's downfall always had an air to me of being a political hit.  A few weeks before, the prickly governor of New York had announced that he was going to take dead aim at Wall Street excesses; his Rottweiler nose had already picked up the scent that something big was about to happen, and he wanted to get there before it did.

Unfortunately, the call girl scandale du jour caught up with him, and the former state attorney general that Wall Street loved to hate had to resign from a great height.   Since then, Spitzer has been writing occasional columns for liberal blogs and other mainstream media while attempting to get his personal life back on track.  Yesterday was one of those occasions on Slate, and Spitzer didn't fail to deliver.    He was requesting that people not get suckered in by externals and outrage; that there is something deeper afoot:

Hat tip to Jack and Jill Politics:

This embedded video is all in Dutch, but it's pretty obvious. Our new president is already in power at Madame Tussaud's in Amsterdam, but where did they put ex-president Bush?

Other Madame Tussaud's around the world, including the one I knew while in New York, should take heed.

Tinfoil hat time...?  

Mike Connell is dead.

From the Akron Beacon Journal:

[Mike] Connell was a prominent Republican political consultant. He founded New Media Communications in Richfield, [Ohio] which developed campaign Web sites for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and President George W. Bush.

But that's not all he was.

Mike Connell was known as the "Republican IT guru" for Karl Rove.  Connell's subsidiary, GovTech Solutions, set up the state of Ohio's 2004 election results computer network for Kenneth Blackwell, the infamous former Secretary of State. Lately, though, according to Velvet Revolution, an investigative legal and reporting group, [...]Mr. Connell told a close associate that he was afraid that George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus."

Maybe they did.

I can't publish this in the Orange Zone until tomorrow, but here it is:

From Hullaballoo via FireDogLake:

Larry Sinclair is one of the most outrageous anti-Obama smear merchants. So why is the National Press Club hosting him this coming Wednesday? Apparently Jeff Gannon wasn't available.

Sinclair's story about having used cocaine and having sex with Obama in 1999 is not credible. As Stoller says, it's another "whitey" style rumor and we all know how quickly this stuff makes the leap from the right wing smear machine to Sean Hannity to Fox News and then alley-oops its way into the AP.

Also in l'orange...

Hat tip to Jack and Jill Politics:

The black women's blog, What About Our Daughters? is about to inaugurate
the Michelle Obama Watch page to both list and refute attacks and smears on the character and aims of Michelle Obama, who may indeed become the first African American First Lady in history.

From the Orange Zone:

I should say that it's an 'alleged' coverup.  But why should I give the Bush Administration any slack, especially when Pennsylvania's primary is filling up all of the known airwaves.

(Go Barack.)

I don't have cable anymore--I just can't afford it right now.  Hell yeah, I miss Olbermann daily, and I miss watching Rachel Maddow use only a scintilla of her vast intellect to bash Buchanan and Scarborough.  Friday nights without Real Time with Bill Maher pall as well.

So now, between nature shows, American Experience ("Roberto Clemente"!) and reruns of Masterpiece Theatre, I watch the braindead dreck that is network TV nowadays, including how many versions of Law and Order, and Howie Mandel's Deal or No Deal.

Jeez:

TROY, Mich. (AP) -- The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told authorities that he used the Internet to arrange a $150 sexual tryst with a prostitute at a metropolitan Detroit hotel, police said Wednesday.

Thomas Athans, 46, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network, was stopped by police who were investigating prostitution at the hotel, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press.

...and ain't that a kick in the head?  

Interesting that Stabenow, as a Hillary supporter and who is over a decade older than her second husband, now has to deal with this bimbo eruption.

No doubt, it wasn't the first time he ever strayed.  Bummer.

The latest Rasmussen phone polls, some reflecting races this week and on March 4, shows Barack Obama continuing to steam roll over Hillary Clinton--and John McCain.

In Pennsylvania, where Governor Ed Rendell broadly suggested that Hillary might be more palatable to white voters in the state:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Obama attracting 49% of the vote while McCain earns 39%. However, in a McCain-Clinton match-up, the Arizona Senator has a statistically insignificant two-point lead, 44% to 42%.

In Pennsylvania, Clinton leads McCain by six among women but trails by nine among men. Obama leads McCain among both men and women, but has a larger lead among women. McCain wins 69% of the conservative vote when matched against Clinton, 60% against Obama.

Contrast to the Badger State, Wisconsin, where Obama was previously at a deficit:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Obama with a narrow four-point advantage over Clinton, 47% to 43%. Nearly one-fourth of the voters say there's a good chance they might change their mind. Five percent (5%) of those who currently support Obama and Clinton say there's a good chance they could change their mind before voting.

Let's hope some of that mind-changing is from Clinton to Obama and not the other way around.

Unfortunately, Ohio seems resistant to the Obama juggernaut.  More at the jump.

This news is over two hours old. First, Virginia:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Virginia shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton by eighteen percentage points. Obama earns 55% of the vote while Clinton attracts 37%.

The demographic divisions are similar to those seen in other states. Obama leads among white men while Clinton leads among white women. Overall, the two contenders are even among white voters while Obama leads 72% to 22% among African-Americans.

Clinton leads among senior citizens while Obama has the edge among younger voters.