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Blogger Zilla of the Resistance has been in the hospital for three days. Pete Ingemi interviewed her,

Go to her blog and donate to her tip jar. We are going through hard times, and she’s in need.

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Rusty Shackleford reports that Dan Riehl is also hospitalized.

UPDATE,
Linked by Smitty. Thanks!

UPDATE ON DAN,

Dr. Melissa Clouthier writes:
Sorry I didn’t write earlier. Thought you’d want to know that Dan went into the hospital last night with respiratory failure. They had to do pulmonary bypass because he couldn’t be intubated. The doctor gave him a 50-50 chance of living.

I talked to the nurse today, she thinks he’s doing better. They’re currently chasing his heart rate and trying to keep him oxygenated — he has a nasal canula now, which is not that big of a deal. They said they’d try to move him out of ICU tonight but weren’t sure.

He’s at the Fairfax County hospital.

The official opening speaker of #BlogHer12 is @barackobama. Thank you Mr. President! ow.ly/i/OQHp

— BlogHer(@BlogHer) August 2, 2012

4,000 women bloggers are meeting in NY City from today until Saturday at BlogHer12, and Pres. Barack Obama adressed the standing-room-only crowd in the Hilton’s largest ballroom at 4:40PM today via live feed, as he had dome in 2004.

Where is Romney?

I talked to the Romney campaign and they said that Romney couldn’t make it because he’s in Colorado today.

Imagine this: 4,000 bloggers, all of voting age, most of them activists, and the Romney campaign does not get him to spend five minutes (which was the length of Obama’s speech) with them?

Maddening.

More maddening yet: the rumor is that “Romney couldn’t be bothered to answer”.

Big PR fail, on this one.

Emily Zanotti, and Erik Svane of No Pasarán

The big ballroom

Alberto de la Cruz and I.

Val Prieto and Alberto de la Cruz of Babalu Blog, Bruce McQuain, and Jon Hayward of Human Events.

Bingley’s dinner, THE social event of the NJ blogosphere, took place last night and I was honored to have been a guest.

Suzette brought the wonderful delicate phyllo triangles and posted about the procedure. Here’s what the finished product looked like,

The Chinese pilgrims added to the festivity,

Gregor and Mr & Mrs PRS were there, too. It was a great evening.

Yesterday I posted on how the Zetas allegedly tortured and killed a man and a woman, who still remain unidentified, for posting on the internet on drug violence in the country.

However, the two victims are not the first bloggers to be murdered because of their posting: Last month Humberto Milan Zalazar, who ran a website, was killed also because of his posting.

The Economist comments on the most recent murders,

It isn’t clear how the killers selected their victims, as such blogs usually allow anonymous comments.

I’ll let the techies discuss how hard or how easy it would be to find the IP address of a post or a comment and compare it to the IP address of a smart phone from someone you have kidnapped. However, it is clear that the narcos are driving their point of dominance by terror.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and for bloggers.

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On a side note, while I visit Instapundit every day and am grateful for his links, it’s a sad day to see this entry,

IN AMERICA, WE HAVE ATTACKWATCH.COM. In Mexico, a deadly threat to ‘scandal mongers’ using social media.

Attack Watch – a White House website that quickly has become a joke – doesn’t disembowel and hang anyone a few miles from the US border.

right now, with Patrick Corcoran, Frank Burke, and our host Silvio Canto.

Dan Collins and Joy McCan opened The Conservatory: The Conservative Talent Bank and Marketplace today. Go visit every day!

five years of blogging!

Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post (emphasis added)

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock. It will be the company’s largest acquisition since it was separated from Time Warner in 2009.

AOL is not the most solid company around; it’s laid off thousands of employees, shows no profit and pays no dividends. It has 106 million shares outstanding, currently trading at $21.39 (down since the announcement of the purchase) in the NASDAQ, and this deal will cost $3 per share outstanding.

HuffPo is not publicly traded.

So, my question is, Where did AOL come up with $315 million?

A drop in the ocean

Second Video Shows Planned Parenthood-Sex Trafficking Coverup

New Technology is Driving Abortion Issue in Congress and Courts

Climate Justice [Finally] in California: Judge Faults AB 32 “Cap and Trade” Law

In which I defend Michelle Obama against both the AP’s and Politico’s rank ignorance

Post-partisan president actually very polarizing president

Union Fights to Force You Into Obamacare While Getting Waivers for Itself

Why Two Favorable Rulings on ObamaCare Don’t Matter

Clothes Designer Uses Riots in Egypt as Ad Tool

The Pro-Life Credentials of Mitch Daniels

How do you reduce unemployment? Stop counting 319K people

Anatomy of a Smear- How Media Matters Exploits Fake Bigotry To Protect George Soros.

We are witnessing the collapse of the Middle East

Why the attempt to make the Muslim Brotherhood acceptable?

Egypt, Federalism and the ObamaCare Mandate, and the Gipper at 100 (Cato Weekly Dispatch for 2/4/11)

Rucho to NC Senate Democrats: “join us or cry about it”