Gitcho is the Romney campaign’s communications director. We should know by 8:45am if they stick to their schedule. UPDATE: The National Review thinks it’s going to be Paul Ryan due to some charter flight activity. UPDATE II: Snicker.UPDATE III: From my pal and DC politico Karl Frisch. UPDATE IV: Huffington Post is confirming. Mitt Romney will announce Rep. Paul Ryan …

Just another righteous lie for the Baby Jeebus. And already picked up by the usual freak shows. (Via Right Wing Watch)

The ad referenced was actually created by a Super-PAC unrelated to the Obama campaign. It’s been by far the leading topic on GOP blogs for the last few days.

“Fellow Conservative, I need your immediate attention. This is so important I didn’t even take the time to format this email. The DCCC (the Democrat’s top campaign operation) just released the names of races they are targeting funds for in 2012 as part of their national ‘Red to Blue’ campaign to take back the majority in the House of Representatives. …

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network reports the big news via press release: Former Army Colonel Tammy Smith has become the first openly gay flag officer to come out while currently serving in the U.S. military. She was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in a private ceremony which took place today at the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. BG …

The new pastor of the Castro’s Most Holy Redeemer Church has banned drag queens from performing at the gay sobriety fundraiser held there for the last two years. Via the Bay Area Reporter: For the past couple of years the Castro Country Club has held its event in the church’s social hall and had drag queens as entertainment. As a …

Possibly not work-friendly!

Infamous Maryland-based televangelist Robert Freeman, known on television as Dr. Shine, has been sentenced to prison for doing what all televangelists do. Robert J. Freeman, a.k.a Dr. Shine, is going to jail for 27 months and was ordered to pay $630,000 to four church members. The Washington Post reports that the ‘Gods Top Gun of deliverance’ pastor lied to bankruptcy …

The RNC says they never invited him.

Source.

The Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $22.5M for secretly placing tracking cookies on the users of Apple’s Safari browser after telling them that they wouldn’t. It’s the largest tech fine in FTC history. In its complaint, the FTC charged that for several months in 2011 and 2012, Google placed a certain advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari …

The president will make his formal nomination acceptance speech on the final day of the convention at Charlotte’s 74,000-seat Bank Of America Stadium. Free tickets for the general public became available yesterday on a first-come first-serve basis. The media has noted that press releases have avoided using the actual name of the venue, merely referring to it as “the stadium” …

The New York Times has the sad news. David Rakoff, a storyteller who could elicit peals of laughter and tears of sympathy with his personal accounts of Christmas Day mountain-climbing, studying Tibetan Buddhism with Steven Seagal, flying on the Concorde and grappling with his frailties, died on Thursday evening. Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Mr. Rakoff worked in …

Most of my cab issues have to do with hundreds of people hailing at the same post-event time, so I can’t see this being much help in Manhattan. But it could be great in the outer boroughs. So far, out of more than 13,000 yellow taxis on the road, 1,000 drivers have signed-up for the app and say they’re excited. …

At least there’s no gays this time. Via press release: Dear Joe, In the newest Ragu commercial, a young boy barges into his parents’ bedroom without knocking. We don’t see what he sees, but the cringe on his face and wide eyes tell us enough. This boy catches his parents in the act and walks away in shock. This entire …

Andy Towle unearths the best videos. I didn’t even know ChatRoulette was still a thing. The top commenter on YouTube observes: “I wonder how many times he had to stop filming because a dude was fapping.” A lot, I’d wager. This will make you smile.

Not satisfied with paying Ann Coulter to tell them that they don’t deserve equal rights because they “aren’t black,” GOProud will be hosting vicious homophobe and Breitbart editor Dana Loesch at their Homocon 2012 party during the Republican Convention. Here’s how they are spinning the event: “Homocon 2012 will be the must have ticket for the RNC,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, …

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