Title: “Catastrophe”

Authors: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Rank: 25

Blurb: “It’s time to take back our country. Now. It’s that simple. It’s that urgent. So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann’s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.”

Review: None yet, so let’s enjoy more of the blurb: “In Fleeced, [Morris and McGann] went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economy — and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would ‘trigger a stock market crash.'”

Customers Also Bought: “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations,” by John Bolton

Footnote: Fleeced was published June 24, 2008. Contrary to the lies you’re told by liberal media, the stock market hasn’t crashed yet.

Catastrophe [Amazon]

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So we’re telling the neighbor Thursday night that the only official without popular legitimacy in Iran is Ahmadinejad: He did not win the election, he has no right to continue as president. Everyone else, including Supreme Puppetmaster Khamenei, still has legal authority to sit in their comfy chairs.

Which suggested a solution: Throw Ahmadinejad under the bus. Expose an anti-revolutionary cabal at the Interior ministry that rigged the election, fire the scoundrels, discover the “real” vote count that shows Mousavi the winner, everyone goes home happy. You still have the Guardian Council to veto everything Mousavi or the parliament does, after all. And that “divine blessing”? Dropped cell connection with God. He called back to clarify.

All nice and tidy. And then Khamenei spoiled everything at Friday prayers.

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Perhaps not the best week for this to hit the news:

Job seekers looking to apply for a job in the city of Bozeman, Mont., should be prepared to hand over their usernames and passwords for just about every social networking site they’re on, including Facebook and Twitter.

According to the city officials, employee applicants must sign a waiver giving the city permission to conduct an investigation into the person’s background, which includes handing over social networking login credentials to city administrators.

We’d make an obvious comparison, but we don’t want to risk getting all Hoekstra about it.

Montana City Asks Job Applicants To Fork Over Social Networking Passwords [ChannelWeb]

Tehran is a half-day ahead of Stinque HQ in San Diego. By the time this is posted Friday morning, it will be late Friday afternoon there. The Supreme Leader will already have spoken. What he will say, and the consequences of what he says, are both unknowable at the time of writing.

So let’s take a look at something that’s been nagging us all week: Tehran is not eleven hours ahead of our time — it’s eleven and-a-half. Why?

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So we’re checking out the homepage of Press TV, Iran’s state-supported English-language satellite service, and we notice the blurb for the second video: “Hate filled commentary on U.S. media outlets growing”.

And then we notice the image they’re running with it.

The story, filed from Washington and posted at 2:05 GMT Friday, highlights Rush, O’Reilly, Beck, Dobbs, and Uncle Pat, with expert commentary from the SPLC and Media Matters, among others. But in the entire 2:37 video, there’s no sight or mention of Stephen Colbert.

One of the most fascinating videos we watched yesterday was a brief moment from the Tehran streets. The marchers are deliberately quiet — no chanting — when suddenly you hear cries of “Basiji!” passing through the crowd.

And then everybody sits down.

The Basij are Iran’s “volunteer militia” — the shock troops responsible for most of the violence so far. And in the face of threat, the crowd displayed textbook nonviolent tactics — tactics few would have reason to know a week ago.

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Taking time out from their extensive Iran coverage — two headlines buried way down their 46-headline homepage — WorldNetDaily is pitching an exclusive! story about what matters to Americans: the shocking truth! behind Carrie Prejean’s firing as Miss California.

In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, [Prejean attorney Charles Limandri] said the head of the Miss California USA pageant is an open homosexual who does not approve of Prejean’s opposition to same-sex marriage — and that is the real reason he terminated her contract.

An open homosexual running a beauty pageant? In America? Next you’ll be telling us they also design the gowns.

On the other hand, Donald Trump, the open asshole who actually owns the operation, is quoted saying he agreed with decision, once Prejean’s promotional shelf-life expired: “To me she was the sweetest thing. Everyone else — she treated like shit.”

Guess who fired Miss California [WND]