Right Wing Nation

Okay, I’ve already been to one — the first rally after the Palin announcement, in Washington PA, about thirty miles south of Pittsburgh — but this is an hour away — and I can pick up tickets at headquarters here in town.

Community organizers in Nevada:

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state’s office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

“Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.

Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

Look for the other networks to ignore this.

I left a comment on a blog and referenced gigging frogs.

I got a puzzled response.

You don’t go frog gigging in Australia? From the Greene County (Indiana) paper online. A gig is a, well, kind of a spear with multiple prongs. You spear the frogs. Here’s why.

Just like frying chicken. Tastes like chicken too (really).

Got the mouse and it’s working. XP insists it can’t find a driver for the printer (which is in the bookcase and hooked up), so that driver from HP should be downloaded in about . . . now.

Ed (video at the link):

It really is CNN and Anderson Cooper fact-checking Barack Obama’s claims to have barely known William Ayers — and calling it dishonest. Stanley Kurtz even gets to make an appearance on a network other than Fox for this report

[ . . . ]

Drew Griffin runs down most of the salient points raised by people like Kurtz, David Freddoso, Jerome Corsi, and others. Obama’s admission in a debate that he briefly served on “a board” with Ayers with little contact gets shot down. CNN followed up on Kurtz’ work with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and debunks that notion. They also — amazingly — report on the nature of the grants made by the CAC while Obama ran it to Ayers’ favored schools with radical agendas.

Griffin also tells a somewhat nonplussed Cooper that Obama has lied about his “coming out party” at the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in 1995. Obama has said that Alice Palmer arranged the fundraiser and the venue, but Griffin spoke to two people who attended the event, who claim Obama lied. Palmer had nothing to do with that event outside of being invited to it. Obama and Ayers planned the event themselves.

Obama has lied repeatedly about his relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist. He spent years working for Ayers, promoting Ayers’ causes. Even CNN won’t buy the Obama line any longer.

And how does Obama spokesbot respond?

“I don’t know all the details.” (video)

And how, exactly, is that, if you’re a spokesbot for the campaign, Einstein?

Hmmmm. You’ll recall that my desktop died some months back, and I had to get a new one. The problem is that “new one” means Vista, and I’m getting to the point I like Vista okay (there are some things about it I like a lot, actually, as well as some things I hate), but.

I have a perfectly fine, usable HP Officejet — it’s a printer, scanner, copy machine, and fax machine. But there is no Vista driver for it, and since HP would rather you buy a new Officejet, they aren’t going to put out a driver.

However, I do have my laptop (typing on it now) in the living room, and it’s an XP machine and operates the Officejet perfectly fine. There isn’t room to put it on the coffee table next to my chair here, but right next to the coffee table is the bookcase, and it would go on one of the shelves. So I’m thinking I may do that today.

I have also decided life would be far more enjoyable if I got a mouse for this laptop. So I’m going to run to Best Buy Circuit City and pick up a nice, cheap IR mouse. Circuit City is closer than Best Buy.

And I need — like really, really, really, really need as in really badly need — to clean up this keyboard. There’s crap under the ‘n’ key, and it only works about one out of every ten times I strike it.