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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]

Congratulations to the new Royal Mecca Clock Tower, which starts ticking today with visibility an interstate truck stop would die for:

The clock’s four faces are 151ft in diameter and will be illuminated by 2million LED lights along with huge Arabic script reading: “In the name of Allah”…

Residents of Mecca will also be reminded that it is time to pray when 21,000 green and white lights, visible at a distance of 18 miles, flash five times a day.

No disrespect, but can we just say how much we love being an infidel? Even under the most liberal devotional strictures, we’d have problems making the Wednesday-night social meetings.

But that’s not our interest here. The new clock, we’re told, will be running on Arabia Standard Time, which would be news if it wasn’t. Problem is, AST runs three hours ahead of GMT, which apparently puts Islam at a competitive disadvantage:

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US school road marking spelt wrongly [BBC, via LuxMentis]

“If you think it’s a joke, why don’t you poke yourself with your newly sharpened pencil? Or better yet, don’t — because it’ll really hurt. In fact, every pencil David Rees sharpens is shipped with a signed and dated certificate authenticating that it is now a dangerous object.”

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening [via John Hodgman]