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What? You haven’t heard of the other Talibunny Defense Funds? Well, there’s the “official” fund, but you can’t throw money at it, because it doesn’t exist yet. And then there’s the unofficial fund, which launched Tuesday and prompted alarming! emails Wednesday from both SarahPAC and Team Sarah, telling us to keep our wallets holstered.

But with our fund, you can get a Kindle! You’ll have to pay for it, of course, but that’s still a better return than our competitors. We love the free market!

We also love the freelance Sarah Palin’s Defense Fund, which has nothing to do with Sarah Palin, and links to The Sarah Palin Blog, which also has nothing to do with her — just like us! The renegade fund is run by a new PAC called Free American Citizens, which also raises money via Sarah Palin’s War Chest, another fundraising operation that — please, don’t get ahead of us — also has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

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Tuesday’s award for Best Harbinger of Apocalypse goes to Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, who in the wake of the Vermont veto override coughed up a holy hairball:

Vermont legislators’ futile attempt to replace God by vainly redefining marriage eerily follows how that first man and woman acted on the first temptation — and the root of all temptations — to act as if they were gods. That one decision by Adam and Eve to believe that they could ‘be like God’ separated them from God, destroyed the peace that they had experienced, and ushered in what some would call ‘unintended consequences’ of pain and destruction.

We’re fascinated by her choice of Genesis 3 as the scripture du jour. Among other things, that’s where the Lord created Zombies, since he cast Adam and Eve from the Garden before they could nosh on the Tree of Life. No death, no undead.

But we’ll save the Zombie Exegesis for Sunday.

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Via Sully, a YouTube clip of Antwerp’s rail station making the rounds. We’d let it pass, except for this in the comments:

I think i’d laugh at first then be worried it’s contageous and it was the first sign of a zombie apocalypse and then bail… (hottubmolly)

The world is seeking answers, and we’ll provide them Sunday.

Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak! [YouTube]

Back when we were first introduced to America’s Talibunny, there was an anecdote making the rounds about Sarah Palin’s first run for Wasilla mayor. Wasilla, you’ll recall, is a small town, only 5,500 lost souls in 2000. And the anecdote came from the famous Anne Kilkenny email about Sarah Barracuda before the fame:

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor.

The New York Times followed that up with a long story and telling summary:

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance.

And then there was Troopergate, but we’ll pass over that and head straight to the statement issued in Palin’s name Friday:

“We’re disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention and fortune, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship.”

We’re enjoying the trailer-trash soap opera as much as anyone, but let’s get some facts straight.

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Following blogenfreude’s post yesterday about the Pittsburgh cop killer, redmanlaw alerted us to some curious comments at Raw Story’s report:

This is clearly looking like a Hit job MIAC style to make us all look bad.

this is nothing more than a hit piece and makes RS no better than MIAC report.

For all you fake ass liberals, go to youtube.com search a REAL liberal, Dennis Kucinich, finally actually sounding like those targeted in the MIAC leak.

We’re not sure Kucinich sounds like a cat on the verge of puking, but apparently MIAC has another meaning altogether — it’s the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of 58 federally supported fusion centers that collate and distribute “threat related intelligence”. Fusing the fusion centers is the Department of Homeland Security, so we understand if some folks are a tad creeped out by the enterprise.

For that matter, connoisseurs of historical irony will appreciate the fact that instead of J. Edgar getting his panties in a bunch over Lefties, this round involves MIAC sounding the alarm against the very radical right: the militia movement.

And if you stick around, there’s even a Nixon reference.

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Area 51 [Google]

Title: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them)

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Rank: 53

Blurb: “Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches — and it’s not what most people think.”

Review: “It’s like reading the CNN version of the news — you get only one side.”

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