The banner image slideshow image Tom Emmer's people omitted from his website.

This incredibly informative Emmer campaign website homepage:

http://emmerforcongress.com/index.cfm

How can those Emmer folks convey their message, pictorially, without this?

A Freudian slip? "God Save our Gracious Queen, ... ". Rhonda will "... reign in government ...". She says so herself.

Sure. It's a simple mistake, but simple mistakes on a campaign website indicate trust in staffers/volunteers where the light bulb is burning at less than 100 watts of brightness.

This screenshot, from

http://www.rhondaforcongress.com/

click it to read - focus: second paragraph second line

The campaign is young, the error minor in the grand scale of things, but please fix that website. It grates on the nerves to see that level of inattention from one wanting trust and votes.

This:

Guess who.

On Sept. 11, 2013, a dangerous and viral strain of Muslims invaded Washington, D.C., to march and declare victory over Christians and Jews and to otherwise thumb their noses at everyone who does not believe in allah. While only 30 or so had the "courage" to actually appear on the streets of D.C., having been surrounded by a horde of "Rolling Thunder" Harley Davidson motorcycle riders, and despite the fact that the Muslims secured a permit and the motorcyclists were denied one by Barack Hussein Obama's National Park Service, let us take a lesson from our Islamic "friends." It is time that we Christians, Jews, people of faith and all true patriots say enough is enough and ourselves, in a very real way, "Occupy Washington" to cleanse the nation of the half-Muslim, anti-white, socialist fraud in the White House before the nation goes under for the final count.

Lesioned mind Larry.

This link. Who else, but?

For something entirely different.

Here. 

I encourage readers to not draw any parallels. Separate things. Really.

Larry K. dresses quite fashionably.

Tidy dresser.Untidy mind.



______________UPDATE______________
TPM seizes on Klayman speak, here, the item titled, "Conservative Attorney Larry Klayman Calls For Coup Against Obama." It is an analysis that is not generous toward the distinguished litigator and bon vivant.

It includes a photo of said litigator.

The man looks so level headed ...

And he dresses so well for one characterized as a "coup" advocate and would-be coup instigator. Remember, however, "coup" is TPM's wording, not mine. "Raging asshole" would be my characterization*, if pressed for one, that seeming, in truth, to be more fitting than "coup" instigator.

Yet the recently filed Klayman lawsuits seeking mega-damages against the NSA and private sector anti-privacy media/web collaborators prove blind pigs on occasion can find a truffle or two.

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* In the sense of usage per Bebo v. Delander, 632 NW 2d 732, 739-740 (Minn.App. 2001) ("Expressions of opinion, rhetoric, and figurative language are generally not actionable if, in context, the audience would understand the statement is not a representation of fact. [...] Courts consider four factors when determining whether a statement is one of fact or opinion: (1) the precision and specificity of the statement; (2) the statement's verifiability; (3) the social and literary context of the statement; and (4) the public context in which the statement was made.")

Pynchon has a new book out. I would like to arrange a blind date between Pynchon and Michele Bachmann. "Oh, and what do you do for a living ...".

Each deceives their public, things always being inexact, incomplete, tangible but elusive with the intangible so close. They would absolutely hate one another, the very sight of one another but deeper than that, and it would be fun to watch.

"Bleeding Edge," NYT review, here. LAT, here. Publishers Weekly, here. Guardian. I like the LAT one best among the four, but it's wholly a personal matter of taste.  I did not read any of the four entirely. Reading how reviewers handle his work, you understand his reclusiveness.

UPDATE: Rupert disses. Amazon praises. Is that a surprise?

FURTHER UPDATE: One review of the four, longer than needed, did capture a spirit, saying:

Still, reading Pynchon for plot is like reading Austen for sex. Each page has a little more of it than the one before, but you never quite get to the clincher.

Luckily, Pynchon and Austen have ample recourse to the oldest, hardest-to-invoke rule in the book --when in doubt, be a genius. It's cheating, but it works. No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon's range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency.

It's a peculiarity of musical notation that major works are, more often than not, set in a minor key, and vice versa. Bleeding Edge is mellow, plummy, minor-key Pynchon, his second such in a row since Against the Day (2006)--that still-smoking asteroid, whose otherworldly inner music readers are just beginning to tap back at. But in its world-historical savvy, its supple feel for the joys and stings of love--both married and parental--this new book is anything but minor. On the contrary, Bleeding Edge is a chamber symphony in P major, so generous of invention it sometimes sprawls, yet so sharp it ultimately pierces. All this, plus a stripjoint called Joie de Beavre and a West Indian proctologist named Pokemon. Who else does that?

In times of NSA overreaching, should users consider StartPage?

https://startpage.com/eng/

UPDATE:  Press page, here.

Stamp "Past Due for Retirement" on his forehead and put this nasty warhorse out to pasture. No, tattoo it.

The esteemend General, heading the flawless NSA; this link. Captain Kirk wannabes have no place but out to pasture.

Remember General Scheisskopf, from Catch 22?

We got a live one. Scheiss and all. Not Alexander the Great, despite self image likelihoods.

____________UPDATE_____________
I tried to access the "architectural" firm's page

http://www.dbia.com/projectpage/LIWA.pdf

which Greenwald linked to in his "Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander" Guardian item [opening link, above]. It gave an informative access error message:

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Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

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Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.dbia.com Port 80

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Clearly, this is a design-conscious firm Flaherty should incorporate into any/all of his future uber-apartment design projects (it can't get any worse, Dave, can it). Their motto? Yes We Can.

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This page; and here. Heller never did include any image of General Scheisskopf. Wikipedia does.

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Do you figure the good General wrote or oversaw his own Wikipedia page [as it stands as of posting this blog entry, not necessarily as it might get rewritten in the near future].

More important a question, do you figure the good General knows who did?

Rumsfeld put him there. Who else would you expect?

Sometimes an idea that seems good in the abstract can be put to the test of usage. Sometimes it's the Liousville Slugger. Sometimes the Ball.

For a local "good idea" described on the "about" page, here -

http://www.qirina.com/about.html

Local, as in our beloved metro area.

So, keyspace. The invented buzzword. Defining a site, it's Gestalt, by its keyspace. Wow. What a neat idea.

So, the test of usage, a site I often access, MN Progressive Project -- find where is it objectively "niched" via its "keyspace" -

OUCH. A problem with taking one randomized screenshot, and keeping it into staleness when we all know the web is a fluid thing. But come on. Tim Pawlenty is yesterday's fish, (and always had that aura about him).

At a guess the MPP folks likely would feel misjudged. Cabined, cribbed, confined ... all that.

YET - One trial does not define Slugger/Ball status, and for local folks, cut some slack.

This:

Harold might feel a bit deflated. Gotta bark a bit louder, I guess. If you wanna be noticed. By local folks, touting a service/product. Tested with a couple of slow-pitch softballs.

Need we wait for strike three?