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I figured I’d get a warmer welcome when I joined the vast left-wing conspiracy.  I guess that’s not the case.

Over at Little Green Footballs, ace investigator Charles Johnson is on the case!

In the Linux console, if you enter the following commands, you can learn the secrets of a political dirty trick. First, look up the host of ‘sarahpalingayrights.com’ to get the site’s IP address.

host sarahpalingayrights.com
sarahpalingayrights.com has address 74.208.74.232

Then use the same command to look up the domain name pointer of that IP address.

host 74.208.74.232
232.74.208.74.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer obamadefense.com

Well, well. “Obamadefense.com,” eh?

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Here’s another site that traces back to obamadefense.com: ObamaTaxCut.com.

FYI, someone registered ObamaTaxCut.com for me and forwards the traffic to alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut; this same someone may also run ObamaDefense.com.  This is probably the case, even!  That site now directs to an Obama site, but only because it used to a similar, independent site that became obsolete once Obama started doing the same thing.

To his their credit, the story was quickly updated when I pointed this out.  After everything I’ve ever done that’s available online was uncovered, but that’s cool.

Spotted at Sadly, No.

Palin listens and laughs as cancer survivor-colleague is called a bitch:

Palin, who knows full well Lyda Green is a cancer survivor, didn’t do what any decent person would do, say, “Bob, that’s going too far.”

Lester questioned Green’s motherhood, asking Palin if the senator cares about her own kids. Palin laughs.

Then Lester clearly sets the stage for what he is about to say by warning his large audience and Palin. He says, “Governor you can’t say this but I will, Lyda Green is a cancer and a b—-.” Palin laughs for the second time.

She released a half-hearted explanation at the time.  Yesterday, she fielded a call from the same radio show with John McCain.  Quote Palin, “I love you guys.”

Sarah Palin is gettings heaps of praise from the right and the left for giving birth to a child with Down Syndrome this April inspite of prenatal testing indicating the defect.  Unlike other possible birth defects, Down Syndrome isn’t something that tests predict will happen; the results are certain, and about 90% of pregancies are terminated when Down Syndrome is found.

This is a seriously prickly question for me, and presumably was for her as well.  As a 44-year-old woman, the chance that any child she delivers will have Down Sydrome is higher than one in twenty.  What are the moral considerations of bearing children at her age without considering abortion if Down Syndrome is detected?  Is the fact that she’d already had four children a mitigating factor?  Does it matter whether or not she was aware of the risks beforehand, or whether she considers contraception or surgically-induced sterility moral?

This isn’t a question about Palin, per se, but rather one that applies to a relatively narrow (but large) group of women to who have access to (and use) prenatal testing, oppose abortion in cases of severe birth defects (and follow through on that opposition when it applies to themselves), are at least a bit older than 40 (when the chance of trisomy 21 rapidly balloons from well under 1% to nearly 10%), and have already had healthy children recently.  It’s inevitably got to be a tortured decision to make, and one that implies a huge amount of future personal sacrifice for yourself and your family, but it doesn’t strike me as something that ought to be universally lauded despite the bravery involved without considering the moral implications of her choice.