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Check it out, maybe you’ll learn something you didn’t know about me… then again, maybe not.

No, it wasn’t a terrible skiing accident, it was a press conference. Watch the clip at HotAir, it will make you wonder why Tony Snow hasn’t held this position for longer than a month.

According to Judicial Watch (Hat tip: AllahPundit):

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Department of Defense is releasing the videotape in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request and related lawsuit.

Apparently they were awaiting the end of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial before releasing it.

Looks like there’s going to be a lot of disappointment on the Left… and explanations should be forthcoming from conspiracy peddlers:

The hole in the Pentagon was not made by a jumbo jet. Damage to the building was simply not consistent with the size of the hole nor the absence of debris. At the supposed point of impact, a whole bank of windows remained unbroken and there were no marks on the lawn. No airplane debris (except what was planted on the lawn) nor remains of passengers were ever found.

…and I guess they’ll have to make new conspiracy movies, too.

Allah’s taking bets on which Lefty will be the first to question the timing of this release. My money’s on the kids at DemocraticUnderground.com. And I bet after they question the timing, they’ll show us how Karl Rove actually produced this video on a ranch in Crawford, TX.

Update: I was right about DU. It only took until the first reply to the post about the video before some lefty brought up the timing issue. And for added bonus points, that same thread continues with folks claiming the video might be faked or altered. What do I win, Allah?

Update 2: Seems DU has “misplaced” that previous topic, but never fear, the other threads relating to the video have enough “question the timing/authenticity” posts to suffice.

Update 3: Here’s a screen cap of the first frame. The red circle highlights the front of the nose cone of American Airlines Flight 77. Probably not going to quell the conspiracy nuts:

Testing the theory that if you repeat something often enough, it’s bound to become true, AP writer Will Lester offers up another edition in his Cell Phone/Political Polling anthology. This time, he finally tells readers what he’s been dying to say since the first article… that polls are being tilted in favor of conservatives, because cell phone users who are out of reach of pollsters are generally more liberal. Got to give the guy credit, he’s been working on this angle, repeating this same story, for several years now… and he’s finally delivered the dramatic climax.

Cell-Phone-Only Crowd May Alter Polling

Currently, 7.8 percent of adults live in households that have only a cell phone, according to research released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. And that group is growing at about 1 percentage point every six months.

Those who only have cell phones are significantly different in many ways — typically younger, less affluent, more likely to be single, and more liberal on many political issues — from those who can be reached by landline, an AP-AOL-Pew survey finds.

So does this mean that conservatives should be fearful that the liberal-leaning polls we’re being inundated with by MSM aren’t representing enough liberal data?

Blending the opinions of cell-only respondents into a poll of all adults changed the findings on various political questions in the AP-AOL-Pew survey by 1 percentage point at the most.

Guess not. But Lester has been repeating this exact same story for almost 2 years now. Although, this was the first time he decided to announce the mystery cell phoners are not just poor college non-voters, but suddenly they’re a bunch of liberal voters… (afterall, reliance on polls worked so well for the Left in 2004) But these newly liberal voters weren’t so political in the last few renditions of this story:

October 12, 2004: Cell phone users not in election polls (Will Lester, AP) - “Many cell-only users are young and mobile, a demographic that often doesn’t vote.”

February 26, 2005: ‘Cell phone only’ crowd stymies polls (Will Lester, AP) - “They’re mainly young, single and urban. They move frequently, usually renting rather than owning their homes.”

May 16, 2005: Pollsters Eye Cell Phones (Will Lester, AP) - “[T]he number of people using only cell phones was growing faster among several groups - including young adults, those people living with unrelated roommates and those people living alone.”

It looks like Lester may have gotten his inspiration from another article written back in December, 2003:

Cell phones put pollsters ‘in a muddle’
Exclusion of a particular socioeconomic, political, racial, geographic or other group can skew poll results, because a reliable poll must draw responses at random from as wide a field as possible.

Polling experts agree that the problem is minimal for now, but they have varying takes on how serious it may become.

Seems Lester is a fan of cloning articles.

President Bush is set to address the nation tonight regarding the immigration issue. Lots of buzz around the ’sphere.

Michelle says: “Read my lips: No New Amnesty”

Jim has the “Open Border Drinking Game”

Blue Crab Boulevard highlights the protests against the backlash to the protests.

Hot Air has a roundup.

John thinks the troops-on-the-border tactic is just a gimmick.

PoliPundit is expecting tonight’s speech to be same sh*t, different day.

What do you want to hear? What do you not want to hear?

So when blacks make up a disproportionate number of arrests for car crimes, the focus must be on whether racial profiling is involved, and not whether blacks are actually committing more crimes…

…even when the arrests are generated by “technology [that] allows car registration plates to be scanned and automatically run through databases to determine whether a vehicle is stolen, uninsured or has not had its road tax paid.”

Whatever we do, let’s never put the blame on the criminals.

In celebration of the new launch, I will be giving away two… yes TWO… Toshiba 10GB gigabeat MEG-F10B Aqua Blue Acrylic Digital Audio Players.

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From the Washington comPost:

The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort. Another 35 percent said the program was unacceptable, which included 24 percent who strongly objected to it.

A slightly larger majority–66 percent–said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made, the poll found.

These current findings are consistent with a poll taken 6 months ago. The ironic thing about this whole pretend scandal is that the same people who are voicing opposition and mock-concern over this “law breaking program” are the same idiots that came out swinging shortly after 9/11 asking “what did the President know, and when did he know it?”

By the way, the reason a majority of Americans support this type of surveillance program… is because it works.

I’ve been battling a sinus infection and a hectic travel schedule and haven’t been overly motivated to post this last week. I hope to be back to full strength in the coming days. Thanks for all the emails.

The country of peace, led by the President of peace, who practices the religion of peace has now been found to have weapons-grade uranium for their peaceful nuclear project.