So, what’s Celibabe been up to since losing to the Delaware Marxist?

“Tragedy comes in threes,” O’Donnell said. “Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s passing and Barack Obama’s announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits.”

Huh?

“If we’re going to extend the jobless benefits we have got to cut spending programs and that’s the flaw in his announcement,” she said. “That’s the tragedy.”

Ah. Makes sense. Can’t extend unemployment benefits without cutting spending elsewhere, of course. But those tax cuts, well, we’ll gladly pay China next Tuesday, right?

Hold on — isn’t O’Donnell herself now unemployed?

Well, yes, but she’s relying on the kindness of strangers:

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While The Preznit busies himself fending off the Puritan Left, the Charlatan Right continues its Crusade against the Kenyan Infidel:

Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus have written to President Obama asking him to correct a speech he gave in Indonesia incorrectly replacing the nation’s motto of “In God We Trust” with “E pluribus unum.”…

“For the president of the United States to incorrectly state something as foundational as our national motto in another country is unacceptable,” said [Virginia Congresscritter and Caucus founder J. Randy] Forbes. “The president is the primary representative of our nation to the world, and whether mistake or intention, his actions cast aside an integral part of American society.”

The judges have to award the point to Forbes: “In God We Trust” is indeed Our Nation’s Motto.

Since, um, 1956. Not exactly “foundational”.

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Information on becoming a Knight [Christian Concepts, via Gen JC Christian]

MasterCard, Visa shut down electronic donations to WikiLeaks [Raw Story]

“Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama’s point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America’s armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible.” [NOLA, via Yahoo]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Newt Gingrich and Mrs. Gingrich III.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

[via Sully]

Last we heard from the Asshole from Oklahoma, he was refusing to participate in a Tulsa holiday parade because the town had forsaken Jesus. This morning, he reiterated his opposition to secular Festivus celebrations:

INHOFE: Gretchen, I rode my horse in that parade for 30 years and I never missed one until they changed the name. When he said that was a silly reason, I don’t think that was a silly reason at all… But, you know, this is a bigger picture… You know, I would expect it some other places, but not here in Oklahoma…

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Company	Action	Cowards?	Explanation
Amazon	Removed WikiLeaks cables from its “cloud” data service.	Yes.	Only 612 cables (out of a quarter-million) had been released, and Amazon was hosting the redacted versions already published by the New York Times and other newspapers.
Tableau Software	Removed charts illustrating statistical summaries of WikiLeaks cables.	Yes.	Never hosted the cables themselves.
EveryDNS	Removed “wikileaks.org” from its free DNS service, which translates domain names to numeric Internet server addresses.	No.	Attacks on system threatened entire service.

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