South Texas sheriff who suspects “lake pirates” were the culprits in chasing down and shooting a jet skier on a border-straddling lake declines to assist Mexican authorities in the search for the missing man and his jet ski.
It wasn’t widely known that bit.ly and other url shorteners with the .ly domain designation were registered through a Libyan domain registrar until a sex-friendly bit.ly competitor was shut down for violating “Our Country’s Law and Morality.”
For those of you not familiar with url shorteners, they’re designed to condense a url so they take up less space, which matters in a 140-character Twitter, for example. So the url address for this post goes from:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/10/the_libya-twitter_connection.php
to:
Rachel Slajda explains the Libya connection.
The GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, is running into trouble over testimony he gave earlier this year to the state legislature opposing a bill that would have eliminated the statute of limitations for those abused by Catholic priests to bring lawsuits. Prior to launching his Senate campaign, Johnson sat on his diocese’s finance committee. Brian Beutler takes a closer look at Johnson’s testimony and its political repercussions.
Today‘s Meredith Vieira doesn’t pull any punches with “lake pirate” victim: “So I have to ask you just point blank: Did you have anything to do with the disappearance and or the death of your husband David?” Watch.
Jon Stewart on the U.S.-Guatemalan syphilis revelations. Watch.
With the new phenomenon of the rageoholic Republican gubernatorial candidate, we thought it was time to ask the question: which Tea Party candidate is going to be the first one to just finally beat the crap out of someone before November 2nd? Evan McMorris-Santoro rounds up the contenders.
Critical question for the 2010 midterms: Which tea party candidate will be the first to duke it out — with the press, his opponent, hapless bystander, etc?
Rachel Maddow and crew reenact getting bounced from Christine O’Donnell campaign HQ. Watch.
Just a quick observation.
The best thing ever to happen to Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio (especially Toomey) is the crop of completely whacky Tea Party nominees in maybe a half dozen Senate races across the country. Back under the old normal, Pat Toomey was a pretty out there guy. Club for Growth politics, a staunch advocate of phasing out Social Security. He seemed close to unelectable in Pennsylvania. But up against Angle, Miller, O’Donnell, he’s like Bob Dole.
Yes, this is kind of snark. But I think it’s really true.
Back home in South Dakota, the word they use for this is “castration.”