“Sacrilege at Ground Zero: A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz).” [WaPo]

“Longshot Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a teenage student in a South Carolina college computer lab.” [AP/MSNBC]

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While “Anchor Babies” has become part of the National Shouting Match, Louie Gohmert toils alone in his attempt to get “Terror Tots” on the agenda. Here he engages Anderson Cooper in an enlightening conversation on the inability of FBI research to substantiate his claim.

Honestly, we think “Gaping Hole” would be a great John Adams opera.

WorldNetDaily, 1 am Thursday:

Al Gore says climate battle lost by ‘failure’ of government
Also blames ‘right-wing’ media and pushes global-warming alarmists to demand coverage

Ex–Vice President Al Gore, who has invested heavily in schemes that would give him profits from climate-related energy credits and carbon-emissions trading, is lamenting bitterly the “failure” of the government that means there probably won’t be comprehensive legislation taxing energy use and emissions right now.

And he’s blaming “right-wing” media, whose reports documented “Climategate,” the revelations of global-warming scientists that made it appear they were manipulating results and shutting out critics, for that failure.

WorldNetDaily, 9:45 pm Thursday:

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[Merit Badger, via Boing Boing/LuxMentis]

We think we’re supposed to get a partisan giggle out of the new line of F*ck Tea products:

“We will be launching new products in the next several months to help people all over the country F*ck Tea,” [Agenda Project founder Erica] Payne told Politico. “Products like a Glenn Beck Bowl Buddy (Beck B Scrubbin) and others are perfect holiday gifts or just a great way to say, ‘I love you and our country’ to your spouse, friend or family.”

Problem is, once the actual folks started using “teabagger” to identify themselves, the game was over.

And even if we grant the point, what’s with the asterisk? Fucking wimps.

Dem group launches ‘F*ck Tea’ campaign [Politico]

Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California lifted his temporary stay of his decision last week that ruled that Prop. 8 was unconstitutional.  The stay will be lifted as of August 18 at 5 pm. Gay and lesbian couples had been lined up since early this morning at City Hall in San Francisco and Santa Cruz in anticipation of the announcement that the temporary stay would be lifted.

Chambers of commerce, event planners, caterers, restaurants, and hotels in California’s most beautiful and beloved locales let out a big sigh of relief at the thought of the money to be spent by gays and their guests at local nuptials.

Right wingers had their talking points lined up since early this morning about how heterosexual marriage will be destroyed by this lifting of the stay by the evil homosekshual San Francisco judge.  A handful of Yes on 8 supporters were outside San Francisco City Hall along with those waiting to get married, and their fashion choices demonstrated how desperately they’re in need of gay assistance.

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