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Speaking to a respected Hispanic leader in KCK, Dennis Moore reportedly called decorated and disabled Marine Veteran and Congressional Opponent "White Trash" in a recent (recorded) telephone conversation. The KCK leader, who has formally supported the incumbent congressman, is supporting Daniel Gilyeat's candidacy for the Kansas 3rd District Congressional seat. Dennis Moore called the KCK man after hearing the Hispanic community leader's support had changed. Dennis Moore said he had $7 million for the campaign and could not believe the naturalized citizen was supporting "White Trash" over Moore.

Rod Blagojevich (is) the former Illinois governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in congress. When Obama was asked by the press if he had ever met Governor Blagojevich, Obama replied, "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."

Obama adviser: Republicans are "a**holes" By Tony Romm - 09/02/09 09:59 AM ET A video in which White House green jobs adviser Van Jones calls Congressional Republicans (and himself) "a**holes" is quickly making the rounds on the Internet this morning. Jones made the off-the-cuff remark in February, during his lecture at a Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) event on the green economy. At the time, the Obama administration had not yet tapped Jones to serve as a special adviser on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality. The slip happened in response to a question about the Democratic Party's...

Human see. Human do. As with monkeys, it’s apparently the same for some nerve cells in the brain. Macaque monkeys have specialized brain cells — called mirror neurons — that activate when a monkey performs an action involving an object, such as picking up a grape, or when watching someone else do the same task. The discovery of these neurons in 1996 led to speculation that they could be involved in everything from simulating others’ actions to language development to autism. There was only one problem: no one had definite proof that such cells exist in humans. Now a new...

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"Hello, my name is Bobby. How may I give you excellent customer service today? I hear you are having problems with hard drive. I am so very sorry this is happening to you, ma'am."

Wildlife officials said a rhesus monkey known to throw feces when mad is on the loose in Tampa Bay. Authorities have been trying to capture the primate since Tuesday afternoon, but it managed to evade a bucket truck and tranquilizer dart. -snip-

WASHINGTON - If you stand by the right edge of the seventh-floor window in the Pennsylvania Avenue office and crane your neck just so, you can see the Capitol, where George Allen made his living for six years. That ended in 2006, when he was denied a second Senate term by the voters of Virginia and Democrat Jim Webb. Allen is on the outside, looking in. Over his shoulder and much easier to see is the Ninth Street tunnel and the road out of town, to his home near Mount Vernon. It's the road to freedom, Allen says, sitting at...

U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski spent more than $2 million to win his 13th term, including $10,000 in payments to a videographer who followed political opponent Lou Barletta throughout the campaign. Kanjorski, a Democrat, defeated Barletta in the Nov. 4 election by nearly 10,000 votes to retain his 11th Congressional District seat. The videographer, identified as Joe Van Wie of Agapic Films of Scranton, was observed taping Barletta at campaign rallies and fundraisers. He also caught the mayor at Hazleton City Hall before and after council meetings, said Shawn Kelly, who served as Barletta’s campaign spokesman. Van Wie may have...

Former Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen issued the following statement today, congratulating Barack Obama for being elected the 44th President of the United States. “Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama, his family and his team in winning a phenomenal and historic election. I strongly believe his grandmother in spirit enjoyed his massive, exciting victory. Thank you also to Sen. McCain, his family and his team who fought hard in an exceedingly tough political climate. The people – the owners of the government – have spoken in their States. We must respect the decision of the voters. “Challenges remain ahead for...

Politics on the sports page, this time from the L.A. Times in a display that is remarkably vulgar even by the low standards of that dying joke of a broadsheet: "On Saturday, John McCain’s rally monkey, Sarah Palin, popped up in Carson. Fresh off of her victory over herself at the debate, her campaign let Palin out of the cage to rev up the fan base."

You've read the quote. You've heard the rumors. Now, hear the audio of Mark Warner calling the NRA, people of faith, home schoolers and people who believe in the right to life "a threat to what it means to be an American." When this issue first surfaced in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, then gubernatorial candidate Mark Warner "angrily denied the claim" and called it "inaccurate." But the audio will tell you a different story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpicD6UIq8A

For a decade, Tom DeLay ruthlessly enforced Republican rule in Washington with such vigour that he was nicknamed "The Hammer". But the party's former leader in the House of Representatives will this month launch a national grassroots movement to combat the liberal activists who he believes outfoxed and outmanoeuvred Republicans to win the 2006 mid-term elections. Mr DeLay, who revelled in his reputation as a no-holds-barred Washington operator as the party's chief whip and then majority leader from 1995 to 2005, aims to instil an army of conservatives across the country with his political street-fighting skills. Tom DeLay: 'I have...

Barrack Obama's lipstick on a pig speech yesterday may be his "macaca" moment in more ways than readily meet the eye. Yesterday, Obama made his lipstick/pig speech in the rural southwestern Virginia county of Russell. Shockingly, in 2006, George Allen made his infamous "macaca" comment in the rural southwestern Virginia county of Dickenson. Russell and Dickenson Counties sit side by side. In other words, it is the same patch of dirt. (I'm from there so I can say it.) How can it be that The Chosen One could have been so reckless with his choice of words in the same...

Election '08: Back when he led the polls, Barack Obama gallantly promised a new, post-partisan politics. Now his lead is gone, and he's getting personal about Sarah Palin. However he justifies it, he's starting to look small.Ever since the governor of Alaska joined the Republican ticket, Team Obama has been at a loss about how to take her on. For a while, they just called Gov. Palin the "mayor of Wasilla" and "lieutenant governor" of the state. But now they've turned to far worse code words in a bid to psychologically demean her. On Tuesday in Virginia, Obama himself sank...

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Just about two months before then-Sen. George Allen uttered the made-up word "macaca" that was transformed into a racial slur against Indian-Americans by Democrats, gaffe machine Sen. Joe Biden said this much more direct and insulting comment about Indian-Americans. Never mind all the doctors, lawyers, engineers and software programmers. Apparently, in Dunkin' Donut Joe's mind, they're all like Apu from "The Simpsons" and, according to Biden, you can't go into a 7-11 or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

NEW DELHI: With Democrat senator Barack Obama busy in the run-up to the US presidential polls, a group of well-wishers in the capital have decided to send him a symbol of his lucky charm, Lord Hanuman, to help him emerge victorious. Obama's representative Carolyn Sauvage-Mar on Tuesday received a gold-plated two-feet-high idol which she will pass it on to the Obama after it is sanctified. The idol is being presented to Obama as he is reported to be a Lord Hanuman devotee and carries with him a locket of the monkey god along with other good luck charms. An hour-long...

But the real reason for Obama’s extraordinary freakout is that he fears the release of the videotape, reported here, of Michelle Obama in the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church railing against “whitey.” And we don’t mean Whitey Ford. Four Republican sources have told me that the tape exists. I’ve also been informed that Karl Rove and his allies have a copy of it and are using it to raise funds for independent expenditure groups. The tape, I’m told, will be disclosed as the GOP October Surprise. It’s a ticking time bomb. And I’ve learned that a right-wing Republican billionaire...

Senator Barack Obama fought back Saturday against accusations from his rivals that he had displayed a profound misunderstanding of small-town values, in a flare-up that left him on the defensive before a series of primaries that could test his ability to win over white voters in economically distressed communities. For a second day, Mr. Obama sought to explain his remarks at a recent San Francisco fund-raiser that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations. Acknowledging Saturday that “I didn’t...

Delegate for Obama quits over remark CARPENTERSVILLE, IL Says when she called black kids 'monkeys,' she was asking them to get out of tree April 8, 2008 BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama's campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys." Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, a Carpentersville village trustee, was elected as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She sports an Obama sign in her front yard. On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in...

Oh, my. Barack Obama may want to call his new Houston office and suggest some decorating ideas. Take a look at the flag flying in the office at the moment: No, that's not a Texas state flag with a picture of Obama on it. It's the flag of the Castro-led Cuba regime, with Che Guevara's face superimposed on the side. A Fox report from Houston captured this image as it showed Obama supporters celebrating his momentum after Super Tuesday. Does Obama know his Houston supporters honor a terrorist in his campaign office? I'm sure he doesn't. However, it would behoove...

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that George Allen, former Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative, has endorsed John McCain for president. "John McCain has led a life of heroic service to our country," said Governor Allen. "His experience coupled with his strong belief in core conservative principles makes him uniquely prepared to serve as our next commander in chief. I am confident that he is the only candidate who can combat the threat of radical Islamic extremism, ensure our country's economic prosperity, stop wasteful Washington spending, and uphold our traditional values. Today,...

With his victory in Florida last night, John McCain is now the unquestioned front runner for the Republican nomination. It's been interesting to read the blogs today and read how conservatives are leaning now. They run the gambit. Some conservatives say they will hold their noses and vote for McCain. Some say they will vote for the Dem. nominee, the thinking being that let the Dems. destroy the country instead of our party. Still others say they will simply stay home. What am I going to do? I honestly don't know. I can't see myself ever pulling the lever for...

Since when did monkey become a bad word? Gautam Sheth Bhajji’s alleged slur of calling Symmo a ‘big monkey’ is no big deal if we look in the past what other Aussie players have uttered. Gautam Sheth brings to your notice the not so famous words from down under. Hard-hitting headlines like “Umpires give Oz 2-0 lead”, “Team India: c Benson b Bucknor,” “Umpires beat India” have ruled the roost in Indian media after dim-witted umpiring errors from Jamaican Steve Bucknor and English Mark Benson. But what has become the point of controversy is the word ‘big monkey’ which apparently...

Remember Macaca? The young man whose handheld video brought down former Virginia Sen. George Allen, has resurfaced in the presidential contest that Allen once hoped to be part of himself. S.R. Sidarth, the Fairfax student of Indian descent, is now a paid staffer in the communications office of Democratic Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson. He works in Richardson's Santa Fe office compiling daily newspaper articles for the governor, drafting press releases and performing other communication tasks. Alas, he is not reprising his role as a volunteer "tracker" for the Jim Webb campaign, when he shadowed Allen with a video camera, hoping...

McLean, VA - Today the Fred Thompson campaign announced that two leading Virginia Republicans will serve as the campaign's Virginia Co-Chairs. Former Senator George Allen and Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell will lead the Thompson campaign operation in Virginia. A self-described "Common Sense Jeffersonian Conservative," George Allen has served the Commonwealth of Virginia for over twenty years. Allen first represented Virginia as a delegate in the General Assembly where he held Thomas Jefferson's seat. Elected to the United States Congress in 1991, Allen was later elected as Governor of Virginia in 1994. While in office he achieved criminal justice reform,...

Just 10 months into his first term in elected office, James Webb found himself on the podium for one of the most coveted speaking slots in Democratic politics. The freshman senator from Virginia delivered the keynote address to the New Hampshire Democratic Party at its annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner a week ago, a role that in recent years has been played by current and former White House candidates John Edwards and John Kerry. Two years ago the speech was delivered by Sen. Evan Bayh, who is viewed as a potential vice presidential pick next year.... Direct and withering when talking about...

RELEASED TO THE MEDIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2007 Live By “Macaca,” Die By “NAMBLA”Top Virginia Democratic Strategist Linked To Pedophile Web Site Richmond, Virginia. (August 25, 2007) – The Old Dominion Blog Alliance (“ODBA”), an organization of approximately 25 conservative Virginia bloggers founded on December 9, 2005, discovered on August 21 that someone registered the domain name of “olddominionblogalliance.com” on August 16 via GoDaddy.com’s Domains by Proxy service in order to conceal their identity. The domain was then set to forward to the web site for the North American Man-Boy Love Association ("NAMBLA"), an organization that promotes illegal activity between adults and...

Hillary has gotten away with lie after lie because the press won't challenge her. She always totally controls the venues in which she speaks. With YouTube, we now have the opportunity to show people the truth, even if they are too lazy to read or do their own homework. If this is the only way to get out the truth, we will keep doing it. Hillary cannot hide forever. HERE IS BACKGROUND AND THE SONG ON YOUTUBE.....LET'S SING! Paul Fray had nothing to gain when he claimed that Hillary had called him a "F***ing Jew bastard" in 1974 after Bill...

Heady Days for James Webb By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor January 23, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) announced on Monday that he has launched the Born Fighting Political Action Committee to support the candidates and organizations that share his goals for the nation. "As the Chair of the Born Fighting PAC, I will be guided by three primary goals: reorienting our national security posture, bringing fairness back to our economic system, and developing greater accountability in government," Webb said in a message to supporters. Webb promised that a list of candidates he supports is coming soon. He...

MADISON -- In a study of non-human primates infected with the influenza virus that killed 50 million people in 1918, an international team of scientists has found a critical clue to how the virus killed so quickly and efficiently. Writing this week (Jan. 18, 2007) in the journal Nature, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka reveals how the 1918 virus - modern history's most savage influenza strain - unleashes an immune response that destroys the lungs in a matter of days, leading to death. The finding is important because it provides insight into how the virus...

The conventional wisdom is that George Allen lost his Senate race to Jim Webb because the media focused on some of his embarrassing gaffes, such as calling a Jim Webb campaign operative a "Macaca." But it's also the case that Allen failed to run a conservative campaign on the most important social issue in the race-traditional marriage. It is significant to note that while Allen was losing, a state amendment reaffirming traditional marriage was passing. It got 57 percent of the vote while Allen only got 49.2 percent. One veteran political observer asks, "Why did George Allen not campaign loudly...

This is a long interview type article with a portion below: You previously belonged to the Republican Party and held two big positions — assistant secretary of defense and, later, secretary of the Navy — under President Reagan. I am very proud to have served in the Reagan administration. He had the ability to inspire people in this country in terms of how they viewed themselves as Americans. Why did you decide to switch and become a Democrat? A lot of people have left the Republican Party because they went over there like me on national-security issues and were never...

LOS ANGELES - The word "macaca," used by outgoing Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia to describe a Democratic activist of Indian descent who was trailing his campaign, was named the most politically incorrect word of the year on Friday by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage. "The word might have changed the political balance of the U.S. Senate, since Allen's utterance (an offensive slang term for Indians from the Sub-continent) surely impacted his election bid," said the group's head, Paul JJ Payack. Allen narrowly lost to Democrat James Webb in November, helping make it possible...

WASHINGTON -- It wasn't supposed to end like this. Virginia Sen. George Allen - once considered a star of the national Republican Party and a 2008 White House favorite - was cleaning out his office Friday and attending to last-minute legislation as Congress tried to finish its work for the year and head home. Since losing his re-election bid to Democrat Jim Webb last month, Allen has mostly kept a low profile. The walls of his Senate reception office - usually filled with photos, awards and newspaper articles - were bare, save for the nails that once held mementos of...

In the 2006 elections, we witnessed such incredible bias from the Washington Post that even their very own ombudsman finally had to state that their coverage of Republican candidates, Senator George Allen in particular, was excessive and biased. Allen supporters think he can't catch a break; I sympathize. The macaca coverage went on too long, and a profile of Allen was relentlessly negative without balancing coverage of what made him a popular governor and senator. So, how do you bring pressure on the Post to change? Letters to the editor won't make a difference. Canceling your subscription won't make a...

In the 2006 elections, we witnessed such incredible bias from the Washington Post that even their very own ombudsman finally had to state that their coverage of Republican candidates, Senator George Allen in particular, was excessive and biased. Allen supporters think he can't catch a break; I sympathize. The macaca coverage went on too long, and a profile of Allen was relentlessly negative without balancing coverage of what made him a popular governor and senator. So, how do you bring pressure on the Post to change? Letters to the editor won't make a difference. Canceling your subscription won't make a...

<p>Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office. But Jim Webb, Democratic U.S. senator-elect from Virginia, has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator.</p>

Billed as a moderate, the new Virginia senator sounds more like an old-school leftist. On election day, Arthur Brooks tried to calm the fears of free-marketeers by writing in the Wall Street Journal, "Many of the Democrats at the vanguard of today's political 'revolution' are not exactly left-wing zealots." Among the non-zealots, Brooks cited Jim Webb of Virginia. Eight days later, Webb, now a Senator-elect, made Brooks look positively silly by writing his own op-ed in the Journal, a piece that could easily have been composed by any "left-wing zealot" you would care to mention, including the shade of Karl...

"An Indonesian Muslim woman, a supporter of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), shouts slogans during a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush 's planned visit to Indonesia near the presidential palace in Bogor, west Java, November 19, 2006. "Members of an Indonesian Muslim group prepare signs for a protest against a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 in Bogor, Indonesia. Muslim and student groups have said they will attempt to disrupt the meeting between Bush and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono." "An Indonesian Muslim wearing an Osama Bin Laden t-shirt attends a demonstration...

THREE of Angelina Jolie's bodyguards were arrested by Indian police today following a scuffle with parents at a Mumbai Islamic private school during a movie shoot, police said. Jolie, accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt and their three children, is in India for a month to film scenes for A Mighty Heart, a film about US journalist Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. “We have arrested three of her bodyguards. They may be produced before a local court after police interrogation,” deputy police commissioner Brijesh Singh said. Singh said the bodyguards were arrested on...

The Washington Times reported yesterday that an intense Muslim GOTV in Virginia defeated conservative Republican George Allen. Almost 50,000 Muslims voted in a well-organized campaign: 92% voted for the Democrat Jim Webb. This provided a margin of about 43,000 votes for Webb. His winning margin was about 7,000 votes.

This past summer, between my third and fourth year of college, I decided to volunteer in my home state of Virginia on the campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb. For most of the summer, I worked behind the scenes at the campaign office in Arlington, helping set up field offices statewide and performing other odd jobs. In the second week of August, I was dispatched by the campaign to serve as Republican Sen. George Allen's tracker on a "listening tour" across the state. Tracking was a rather solitary pursuit; I videotaped Allen's public appearances whenever I was admitted into...

"I have my own views, and I have a lot of experiences, and I think I can bring the experiences I had to issues rather than having to read off a party briefing sheet," Webb said Friday in an interview. Webb said he will model himself after former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D), whom he described as someone "who had government experience that was shaped by the intellectual world."

True Story About 'Mrs. Macaca' October 19, 2006 To the Editor: We had an interesting experience at Clifton Day this year. Myself, my 11-year-old son and a friend were walking up the street in the big crowd when we encountered Mrs. George Allen and her entourage. A large proportion were skinheads. We are a very political family and we talk politics around the breakfast and dinner table on a daily basis. For some reason, Mrs. Allen introduced herself to my son, who has a sweet "howdy-doody" face with freckles. Here is the exchange: Mrs. Allen: "I am Mrs. George Allen."...

At some point during the final debate tonight in the Virginia Senate race between Sen. George Allen (R) and James Webb (D), someone will probably bring up the "macaca" issue. Questions about what Allen meant when he attached that word to an Indian American campaign worker for his opponent are what started an avalanche of charges of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism that have come to dominate an increasingly close race. While Allen has borne the brunt of charges of insensitivity, Webb has also come under fire for long-ago comments disparaging women. For at least one Virginia voter, the controversy has...

WASHINGTON – Hoping to jump-start a campaign that has been mired in “macaca” and other verbal miscues since mid-August, U.S. Sen. George Allen has bought time on television stations across the state for a primetime speech tonight. “This is a way for me to talk directly to the hardworking people of Virginia,” Allen said today. He hopes to “inspire people for issues and ideas,” he added. Allen’s two-minute address will be broadcast in Hampton Roads on WAVY, Channel 10. It will begin at 7:58 p.m., sandwiched between “Access Hollywood” and “Deal or No Deal?” Background: Allen's lead over Webb disappears...

Foley, Pirro, Allen - Political Set-Ups? Written by Doc Farmer Tuesday, October 03, 2006 File this article under "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...." First of all, let me make my meaning plain -- Former House Representative Mark Foley is a bastard. He's a scumbag. He's a sleazy pervert. He's a disgrace. I don't care if he laid a finger on any congressional pages or not. His Instant Messages were disgusting, and he had no business using his position of power to "flirt" with underage boys (or girls, if he were so inclined). I do, however, have to ask this...