Officials from Expedition Titanic said in a statement they are now headed back to Newfoundland because high seas and winds brought on by Hurricane Danielle are preventing researchers from carrying out their work.

The team of scientists have been using a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of video of the wreck, which lies roughly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) below the surface.

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They considered, crime, unemployment, weather, health data and foreclosures to create this list. You can visit the site to see what they have to say about each city.

1: El Centro, California 2: Cleveland, Ohio 3: Detroit, Michigan 4: Las Vegas, Nevada 5: Oklahoma City, Ok 6: Los Angeles, California 7: Phoenix, Arizona 8: Newark, New Jersey 9: Miami, Florida 10: Memphis, Tennessee

Update: For anyone that said the punchline should have been 9:15

h/t Will Profit

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George Washington is selling Dodge Challengers and now Thomas Jefferson is pitching Kraft Mac & Cheese. I wonder who these companies are appealing to?

And if you want some Tom Jefferson Mac & Cheese (as a side dish to your Bacon Turtles) here is a recipe and video!

Ingredients:
1 lb elbow macaroni
3-4 cups of grated sharp Cheddar cheese, or whatever
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/8 tsp white pepper
1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp salt
pinch of nutmeg
1 tsp Dijon mustard
3 cups milk
1/2 cup Panko breadcrumbs plus 1 tbsp butter

Yummy pics and video found at FoodWishes blog.

~update~ Monticello has an All things T.Jefferson Wiki and here is the page on “Macaroni“ including a noodle recipe written in his own hand.

Here is a tip that we’ve been getting that we covered awhile back.

While everyone is talking about pencils, we think it’s time to resurrect this gem (arguably)

from the very first days of iOTW. Yes, we made it.

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Naaaaaa. Obama isn’t a socialist. You’re just a dumb, white racist. Now shut up and cling to your Bible… and give me that gun.

Apparently when Susana Valenzuela cried out, “Yonni, my Yonni,” Yonni’s wife, Marta, did a double take. Oh, that scalawag, Yonni.

Now he’s is in a tighter squeeze than he was when the mine first collapsed.

read here

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Mayor Gloomberg hosted slumlord Daisy the Khan and thug “developer” Sharif El-Gamal (with a rap sheet a mile long) at a Ramadan dinner. What is little known is that Hamas-linked, Muslim Brotherhood front, un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR’s New York chief, Zead Ramadan, was there.

The Mayor has his own little terror cell party right there in Gracie Mansion. He is more dangerous than the stealth jihadists. You almost have to wonder if someone is blackmailing him. These racketeers have more dirt on them (open source) than Pig Pen, and yet the mayor of our fair city said that investigating them “goes against what the nation stands for.”

Read the rest here

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HT. /Matt

Handmade ground beef patties, topped with sharp cheddar cheese, wrapped in a bacon weave, then the next step, add hotdogs as the heads, legs with slits for toes and tail.

Next step.  Place on an oven rack, covered loosely with foil and baked for 20-30 minutes at 400 degrees.  A little crispy, not too crunchy…just how a turtle should be, no?

As long as I’m getting “free healthcare,” why not? (Don’t answer that.)

UPDATE: I do believe that some of our readers will be attempting this. SEND US THE PICTURES!!!

DAYTON, OHIO — About 30 local businesses are participating in a program to link conservative consumers with businesses owned by conservatives to help support the Tea Party.

Donald Hutchinson, a businessman and Tea Party supporter, calls his initiative the Tea Party Exchange Inc.

image: Dayton Daily News

Tea Party supporters who obtain a TPX-Great American card — similar to a customer-loyalty card consumers can attach to key rings — and show it at a participating business can get a discount on the company’s services. The local merchant then gives 5 percent of the sale revenue to the local Tea party chapter to help fund rallies.

“It might attract some customers. It might drive some away,” said Herb Asher, an Ohio State University political science professor. “If I were a businessperson, the first thing I’d ask: Is this a winner or a loser for me?”

Hutchinson is co-founder and president of Essex HR and Associates, a Washington Twp. human resources consultant. He said he plans to speak at the national March on DC Tea Party rally Sept. 11 in Washington, D.C., and will promote the Tea Party Exchange concept to other chapters of the Tea Party, whose members advocate for reducing taxes and cutting spending and the size of government.

But businessman Greg McAfee, president and owner of McAfee Heating and Air Conditioning in Kettering, said his company is participating in the Tea Party Exchange, along with about a dozen other businesses.

McAfee said Thursday that since he started speaking at Tea Party rallies in April 2009, he received four negative letters from customers who said they would stop using his company because of his politics. But McAfee said he also has received about 75 positive letters and e-mails from conservative consumers, and that they have helped bring him an increase in new customers since then.

List of participating businesses—->HERE

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Howdy all! I’m back from Ohio and saw this story today and had to share. I had a nice time with family and friends. The homecoming party was great and although my BFF’s hubby is on the thin side and has a completely gray beard, he is doing well and is happy to be home. It was 92+ the whole time I was there- but he was cold-not yet acclimated. So no A/C in their house. The hottest temps he saw in Iraq: 130 degrees! I practically melted in the midwest heat.

I had one awkward dinner with art school friends that was uncomfortable (they only watch MSNBC and love Rachel Maddow). They never watch FoxNews because its “biased.” I had to laugh when I checked iOTW and saw that mentioned in a post. I did my best to articulate our side but I should have called BFH for back up.

Of note on my trip around Ohio was the abundance of American flags flying from flag poles in people’s yards, from their decks and barns and down Main Streets. Something not seen much in my neck of the woods. It made me feel great. Most folks are very supportive of the tea party and not so much of Obama and his policies. I think Ohio will go (R) in November.

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Chris Matthews: Boy Howdy, I Can’t Tell You How Wonderful It Is to See A Black Man With a Wife and a Steady Paycheck!

More racial nuance from Chris “For a moment I almost forgot he was black” Matthews.

“Almost pluperfect,” he calls Obama.

His entire speech here is racist. Yes, racist. Most politicians “do everything right” in terms of getting an education, securing gainful employment, getting married and raising a family.

Most people do this, in fact.

Why is it that in the case of Obama it is required that we “like this guy” for doing what 85% of the public does? In fact — for doing what 85% of black people do?

He’s doling out the superlatives for perfectly ordinary good behavior, of course, because Obama’s black, and Chris Matthews finds it just plum remarkable that there’s a successful, bourgeois upper-class black man out there, and we should all gawk at it and and “oooh” and “ahhh” at it like it’s a, well, like it’s a unicorn.

As Chris Rock said, “You’re supposed to” do these things, and you’re not supposed to get a big stack of credit for doing them.

But Chris Matthews, closet racist, thinks this is just about the most amazing thing he’s ever seen, like a horse that can do addition.

Also, as he’s being racist himself, the subtext is he’s calling you racist, because what he’s trying to say is this: “I understand why you don’t like black people who deviate from what is considered pro-social behavior and life trajectories. But this one guy — this one single black guy in all America — has followed a ‘white’ code of pro-social behavior and life trajectory, and you still don’t like him, ergo it must only be because he’s black, and therefore you’re a racist, my insufferable racial condescension notwithstanding.”

Well, here’s the thing, Chris: As a neighbor, I’m sure I’d like Obama. Assuming he weren’t president and constantly tying up local traffic.

But he’s not just a neighbor, not just a guy I can say “Hey, he loves his kids; seems like an okay guy.”

He’s the president and he’s pushing an agenda on the country I find destructive and, yes, anti-American. And I did oppose a much-weaker form of this agenda when it was pushed by the white Bill Clinton.

Barack Obama’s agenda is Bill Clinton’s raised to the ninth power.

Now, if I didn’t oppose Obama, wouldn’t that be only due to the color of his skin, Chris? If I opposed a weak-tea form of Obamaism under Clinton, wouldn’t only race be my reason for accepting it from Obama?

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Conservatives say a lot of ridiculous things. But few were more ridiculous than the repeated claims that liberals were in league with Islamic terrorists.

Why would we make common cause with terrorists? The values and tactics that make Jihadists so despicable are the same values and tactics embraced by our own homegrown fundamentalists — the American Taliban.

That’s why I wrote the book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right.

In the book, I show how similar both the American Taliban and Islamic Jihadists are — from their fetishization of violence and guns, to their love of theocracy, to their hatred of women and gays, to their fear of scientific progress and education, to their weird hangups about sex, to their disdain for popular culture.

I’ve got to say, I’m pretty proud of this book. It’s my best yet. And I’m definitely enjoying the hysteria over it from our friends on the Right. Turns out, they’d rather people not make the obvious connections between them and their supposed enemies!

The book is out on paperback, so it’s relatively cheap. It’s a great read. Buy it, read it, then pass it around. Let’s spread the word that our domestic Taliban is just as regressive as Islamic fundamentalists. And given the opportunity, they can be just as deadly.

As always, thanks for everything you do,

Markos Moulitsas
Daily Kos

YOU’RE WELCOME!!!!!!

Put aside the embarrassing fact that the cover is a direct “neener neener” aimed at Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism,

the book, written in mascara laden tears, is nothing but a hefty unsubstantiated blog post where only accusations, but not facts, are hurled.

Even the idiot, Matthew Yglesias agrees (sorta):

I previously expressed hope that Markos Moulitsas’ American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right would be better than the publicity material suggested. Jamelle Bouie read it for The American Prospect and reports back that it isn’t.

I say “sorta” because only an imbecile wouldn’t read the book for himself and then offer up someone else’s review of the book as proof that their fears about the book are confirmed. Will someone PLEASE open a window and let the Yglesias out? He can’t even spell Elena Kagan after months of reading the name in the news:

I’m talking specifically about the kind of sustained effort to seriously persuade people that Elana Kagan favors sharia or Dwight Eisenhower is a Communist that you see among loons of all stripes but that seems to be granted more respectability on the right.

Okay. Enough of this moron.

Jamelle Bouie’s review states:

Given the subject matter and his own influence, Moulitsas is sure to find a large audience for American Taliban. This wouldn’t be a problem if the book were a careful comparison of populist nationalist movements, highlighting similarities, underscoring differences, and generally documenting points of congruence between the U.S. conservative movement and populist nationalist groups around the world. But it isn’t.

Indeed, Moulitsas begins the book with the …  declaration that “in their tactics and on the issues, our homegrown American Taliban are almost indistinguishable from the Afghan Taliban.” And he fills the remaining 200-plus pages with similar accusations.

hehe

Ugly Journolister Kevin Drum offers up a peculiar point of view:

I haven’t read American Taliban and don’t plan to. I figure I already dislike the American right wing enough, so there’s little need to dump another load of fuel onto my own personal mental bonfire. But here’s what’s interesting: this review isn’t on a fringe blog site. It’s not from a reviewer for the DLC. It’s not written by some apostate liberal like Mickey Kaus. It’s written by a mainstream liberal writing in one of America’s premier mainstream liberal publications. Did Liberal Fascism get any similarly incendiary reviews from mainstream conservatives writing in any of America’s premier mainstream conservative publications?

In other words, it’s not that Jonah’s book might have been good and Moulitsas’ awful, it’s just that Leftist reviewers are more honest. Gotcha, Drum. I have a different theory. Goldberg is intelligent and Moulitsas isn’t.

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