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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) intends in the next few weeks to introduce legislation that would take away the minority’s power to filibuster legislation.

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His staff said the bill would be introduced sometime before the Senate’s current work period ends on Feb. 13.
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“In light of the fact that it takes 67 votes to change the Senate rules, it does not look likely that a rule change would happen anytime soon,” said a senior aide.

then the sex tape:

OCTOMOM: Stick it in!
DUDE: I can’t, there’s a day care falling out.

via celebitchy via AgentBedhead

Here’s today’s hidden-joke exercise?
Yeah, the basic joke is obvious, but what I want to know is:
is it UP or DOWN?
Any others?

Go over to Holger Awakens for some good news, today.

And for those who haven’t seen this episode, here’s your daily red-mist fix.

On the other hand, our national leadership clearly lacks any loyalty to Americans who risked their lives to liberate a nation and exhibits the morality of mobsters in pursuing human sacrifice to cover their political *sses. Of all the despicable, ghoulish political cowardice I have witnessed in my life, this ranks right up there. When barbarian terrorists are accorded better protection under US law than Americans under fire are, I call “foul;” but perhaps there’s a better word for it.

Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg
By Marc Sheppard at American Thinker
Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders. Just months after the Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence that our government’s principal climate centers have also been manipulating worldwide temperature data in order to fraudulently advance the global warming political agenda.

Not only does the preliminary report [PDF] indict a broader network of conspirators, but it also challenges the very mechanism by which global temperatures are measured, published, and historically ranked. 

Last Thursday, Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo and computer expert E. Michael Smith appeared together on KUSI TV [Video] to discuss the Climategate—American Style scandal they had discovered. This time out, the alleged perpetrators are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). 

NOAA stands accused by the two researchers of strategically deleting cherry-picked, cooler-reporting weather observation stations from the temperature data it provides the world through its National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). D’Aleo explained to show host and Weather Channel founder John Coleman that while the Hadley Center in the U.K. has been the subject of recent scrutiny, “[w]e think NOAA is complicit, if not the real ground zero for the issue.” ...

Ohhh, yes. Good readin’, this.
Save it for when you have time to digest it all.
More? You want morrre? M’kay.

If you missed this episode of Glen Beck, you missed his finest show so far.
This needs to be as widely disseminated as possible.
Personally, I don’t care if you like Beck or not:
this subject matter is vital to understanding our world.
It’s a story that disappeared from academia around forty years ago. I witnessed that.
Make your mature kids watch it. It may help insulate them from the progressivist siren song ...
especially if they ever wanted a Ché/Mao/commie T-shirt or dog tag.

via Rodge

The burqa ia nothing but a big umbrella....

In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.
Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.
Light – who e-mailed an identical missive to this reporter on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown – would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity, although she did say she wasn’t a former co-worker of this reporter’s who had a similar name.

“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

We are headed down to Washington on Monday where Diane will interview President Obama.  We have had a long standing request to talk to the President before his State of the Union speech Wednesday night and it comes after arguably the most difficult week for his administration.
There is a lot of ground to cover—that controversial crack-down on the big banks Obama proposed yesterday, the current level of unemployment, and the feasibility of healthcare reform. I also expect Diane will ask him about the state of our mission to fight terrorism overseas.
The interview will air on Monday’s “World News” which Diane will anchor from Washington. There will be more on “Nightline,” Tuesday’s “Good Morning America,” ABCNews.com and ABC News Radio.

Please let us know what questions you want us to ask via Twitter and Facebook....

An international human rights organization has criticized a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about election spending in America.

The criticism comes from a senior official of the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe....

On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. But even after receiving criticism for giving little coverage to the devastating earthquake in Haiti on its top-rated programs, Fox News did not preempt its programming and air the benefit concert…

Corporate America offers help to Haiti

News Corporation, the parent company of FOX 35 has also announced that it will pledge $250,000 to the Haiti relief effort to be divided between the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

In addition, News Corporation will match—dollar for dollar—contributions made by United States-based employees, up to $250,000 for the next four weeks to the following organizations: American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Real Medicine, Salvation Army, UNICEF, Save the Children and Yele Haiti.

“It’s my hope you will once again join me in supporting an effort to bring aid to those who so desperately need our help,” wrote News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in a memo sent to employees on Thursday.

“Why aren’t we laughing at terrorists? Because we didn’t know how to, until now.”