Ed Shahzade of Next Instinct has a problem: keep reading the description and I'll explain.

I'd never heard of Ed Shahzade (@Ed) before, but earlier today in the course of searching Twitter I saw that he was having a conversation with user @kgilnack about immigration, specifically relating to MA gov. Patrick.

Since that's something I know quite a bit about, I tweeted them the first tweet below. Note that I'm on Ed Shahzarde's side of this: I was trying to help him out in his debate with @kgilnack. @kgilnack responded, I responded back and included @Ed in the conversation once again to help him out.

In exchange, I get the first tweet in the graphic. If @Ed had handled this a different way, would you be reading this? All Ed Shahzade had to do was say he wasn't interested in my attempts to help him out. Instead, he acts like a thug. Do you want someone like that representing your company?

Hey baby, can I buy you another?

I'm not saying that this DailyKos piece (DailyKos post: http://peekURL.com/zxZqGug ) is a work of fiction, but the curious punctuation above tends to give me that impression. The long quote above was transcribed from a slip of paper, but you'd think that whoever wrote it would express themselves without requiring the author's strange habit of using dashes.

The long quote above also doesn't exactly read like it comes from highschooler, but was written by an adult dumbing down their writing style.

YiddishSteel (Lawrence Kent) is yet another example of how TPers have serious issues, as I'll explain below.

YiddishSteel tweeted that the "Koch Brothers are Heros" [sic] and I responded by pointing out just two of the reasons to oppose them (see above).

One would think that TPers would be smart enough not to be fanboys for someone who funds the ACLU and who funds groups that support massive/illegal immig., yet that's not the case.

Instead of asking for more information or trying a defense of the Kochs, YiddishSteel responded in typical TPer fashion: with a picture of a "Douche" sticker in the form of the Obama logo.

So, we've got a TPer calling me a "douche" for pointing out facts. And, the TPer replies as he's been trained to do: falsely assume that anyone who opposes the Kochs or the TP movement must be an Obama fan. I'm just surprised YiddishSteel didn't call me a COMMIE.

You can read the facts about YiddishSteel's "heroes" funding the ACLU and much more here:

http://24ahead.com/s/koch-family

The TPers - supposed opponents of COMMIES - are useful idiots for someone who funds a group started by a COMMIE. How dumb is that?

To find out even more ways the TPers help their supposed opponents, see my extensive coverage of them here:

http://24ahead.com/s/tea-parties

Note that Yiddish Steel is using the same dishonest technique that so many other TPers have used I had to give it a name:

http://24ahead.com/n/10064

Also, you can read my reasons not to vote for O from October 2008 here:

http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/008247.html

If the TPer types had simply promoted that, O might not be president now.

Also, read how I tried to ask O a question in Feb 2007 here:

http://24ahead.com/n/6350

The TPers aren't capable of developing, asking or even helping others ask things like that.

Sorry, you're on your own. Now, Chelsea...

#IAmThe53 is a *goldmine* for the Dems. They can make ads like the (fake) ad above and in general hang Ayn Rand around the GOP neck.

See also this detailed discussion of why their ideas are wrong for the GOP and the U.S. as a whole:

http://24ahead.com/n/10848

I wasn't signed in and was using a fresh browser (no cache/no cookies), and I'd never heard of her before, but somehow - through the magic of Twitter's awesome technology - I'm following her (and at least one other person). Possible security issue?

Do me a favor and take a look at this page:

http://24ahead.com/topics

DCGere is just one more example in a very long series of examples of a wider problem: TPers just aren't aware of how things work, can't figure things out, and reject anything that doesn't agree with them 100%.

TPers aren't aware of the fact that the only reason there's illegal immig. in the first place is because of those fans mentioned in my tweet (and listed at the link above). They aren't aware of how those fans use statements like Cain's to help achieve their goals.

This all boils down to a failure of leadership. R/w leaders find it serves their ends to rouse the rabble rather than educating them and encouraging them to do things that are helpful to the U.S.

Dave Gray has a social media tip: "f--- off" (Dachis Group, Social Business consultancy)

A conversation I had with an NYT reporter. What I need in cases like this is backup: I need others to pick up the ball and chime in. If enough people did that, we could have a meaningful impact on the issue.

All of that is explained in depth at the "you're soaking in it" link above:

http://24ahead.com/help-oppose-illegal-immigration-and-reduce-unemployment-sham

Do see that link, since it's one of the most important posts I've made since 2002 and almost 10,000 posts.

The March 2009 plan is here:

http://24ahead.com/dear-center-american-progress-do-you-support-getting-jobs-fr

The stats he requested are in footnote [3] here:

http://24ahead.com/ben-powell-misleads-about-immigration-suffolk-university-ins

The MSM needs to be kept in check when they lie, mislead, and smear as they often do. Yet, those who present themselves as keeping the MSM honest keep failing miserably at the task.

This paragraph (an interior paragraph of a much longer post) is just one illustration of that. The idea that this story will just blow over if it's proved wrong is absurd. The WaPo could retract the whole story tomorrow and there'd still be large numbers of people who'd keep repeating it like it was true and large numbers of people who'd keep believing it.

And, the GOP/teaparty/conservative hacks who pretend that they keep the MSM honest have no plan to deal with any of that. They aren't willing or able to take effective steps now to reduce the spread of the story. They aren't willing or able to reduce the spread of future smears. Not only that, but they aren't willing to help those who are able.

We need a strong opposition to the MSM lying and misleading, but GOP/teaparty/conservative hacks aren't up to the task.

Who painted this? Is this "something" or not? Please tweet me if you know anything about this.

The funny thing about this is that it includes a submask underneath the first. The submask has the face of these guys:

http://24ahead.com/s/koch-family

Surprise! The Nation and their archenemy have at least one issue in common:

http://24ahead.com/s/the-nation

See also:

http://24ahead.com/s/rupert-murdoch

Time for a third term?

What does #WeinerGate mean? It means that bloggers and others pushing the story care more about cheap sleaze than they do about things that actually matter. Weiner has policies and he's no doubt wrong about many of them. Yet, no one who's pushing #WeinerGate is smart enough to challenge him on those policies. Either that, or they put getting traffic to their sites ahead of what's best for the U.S.

For the consistent alternative to such trivia and sleaze, visit my site. I've got thousands of posts about very vital and important matters (mainly immigration but others), and I'd never stoop so low as to push something like #WeinerGate.

Here's a categorized listing of the topics I've covered since 2002:

http://24ahead.com/topics

You can also plug the name of a politician or another name into the tag search and see the posts about that politician.

Please concentrate on important issues and not on sleazy trivia.

@VotingFemale shows us again that TPers are vile idiots:

1. VotingFemale ("VF") initiated contact with me; I'd never heard of her before she contacted me. I responded, pointing out how she's wrong. That resulted in the "spam" label, which illustrates just how non-conservative TPers are: fighting dirty, lying, and not being able to think things through are not idealized conservative traits.

2. I've posted thousands of entries about immigration since 2002 and contributed immigration-related posts to several sites, including Malkin's. I strive to use the correct terms for what I discuss. And, "immigrants" doesn't appear in my feed or in the three links I sent VF. Which brings us to another point: TPers can't read when they aren't simply lying.

For my extensive coverage of the TPers - and why those who support our immigration laws should oppose them - see:

http://24ahead.com/s/tea-parties

The person who pulls the strings on the TP movement - even though they don't know it - joined with Soros to give millions of dollars to the ACLU:

http://24ahead.com/n/10603

The three links about Obama being Establishment-approved are:

http://24ahead.com/n/7494
http://24ahead.com/n/7738
http://24ahead.com/n/7602

For a categorized list of the topics I've covered in thousands of posts since 2002, see:

http://24ahead.com/topics

The bottom line is this: TPers are vile idiots who are being led around by those who are very bad on immigration and who attack those who are very good on the topic. If you support immigration enforcement, the TPers are not on your side.

Both @thinkprogress and @thegarance have deleted their tweets about Esquire's sad, anti-speech attempt at satire.

For my completely fact-based coverage of this issue - including catching dozens of MSM sources in lies and misleading statements - see:

http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship

Allowed to what?

@OTooleFan (Don Millard) makes an unproved claim, then runs away when challenged.

The announcements don't prove he was born there, and no one has presented valid evidence that they'd only indicate a Hawaiian birth:

http://24ahead.com/n/9363