tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61855212011-08-16T05:44:02.823-05:00"Der Lachende Hat die furchtbare Nachricht Nur noch nicht empfangen." -- Brecht, <em>An die Nachgeborenen</em>Aynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974850750333201118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3991100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185521.post-13353481527352730032008-08-25T20:02:00.014-05:002008-08-25T22:13:47.115-05:00

Well, you can't call it live-blogging, when their big video so far is Zombie Jimmy Carter. Of course he is appropriate to this year of House Posturing. While it was fine for Mrs. John Kerry to own homes all over the world, INOKIYAR ("it's not o. k. if you're a Republican"). So as upwardly-pretentious yuppies lose their over-mortgaged McMansions the Blue Gushies bring out this guy who builds tar

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An AP-Yahoo! News poll found that pet owners favor McCain over Obama 42 percent to 37 percent, with dog owners particularly in McCain's corner. Now if you're Ms. Liberal Paranoia, you won't believe me when I tell you that this isn't just a desperate effort by the AssPress to find some poll, no matter how far-fetched, that shows The Sacrifice Flyboy ahead. (It was no surprise to any of you when

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Schadenfreude of the summer: watching those within the Democrat (sick) Party infected with O.D.S. (Obama Derangement Syndrome) tying themselves into Gordian Nots to justify defecting to McCrash. They've even gone so far as trumpeting imaginary videos of harridian hateshrieks. That only discredits them to the real world, not in their own denying eyes. But they are amateurs: one doesn't need to

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I too was inspired by the latest Creative Market Solution Proposal run up the flag-pin pole by our Designated Sacrifice Flyboy, Senator McAbel, to contemplate other intractable irritants resolvable by Reward Posters. Fortunately, Arthur beat me to it, even if his decadent lifestyle caused him to consider less Family Friendly (TM) targets for innovation. Read his extension of the solon's remarks

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John McCain said Friday that the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees is "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." –FOXNews.com An unidentified nonspokeswoman added "It's just as bad as Brown vs. Board of Education and almost as terrible as Roe vs. Wade."Gee, what do you think are the others in his Top Ten Terrible Turnarounds of the Benighted Nine? Put your answers

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A jury acquitted R. Kelly on all counts .... –AP He will announce later today that he will spend all his fortune trying to find "the real pornographers".

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(To the tune of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".) The sundown towns no longer maintain their signs. No crosses are burned on TV.The racists reluctantly learned new lines: An open society!Those born since the sixties they cannot recallThe dogs and the noose in the tree.Their elders agree to forget it all.What could I grow up to be?White Citizen's Councils avert not their eyesCo-opting N.A.A.C.P.,But my

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Years ago, I used to hear Birchers (more widespread then than now) talk about the evil master conspiracy trying to rule us all. They were convinced that anyone who understood would oppose those vicious schemes. I, naturally, reacted differently. If these plotters were winning so efficiently, shouldn't we try to join them and be among the winners ourselves? Hence my own political efforts, helping

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Why is the administration of Our Noble Lame Duck continuing to dribble away its efforts trying to censor science that Ordinary People Were Not Meant To Know, when they could instead be directing research to proving more politically palatable theories? I've had one such inspiration in reading a quote (from an article in *ugh* The Nation about "Toxic Toys") found by the ever-alert Sister Nancy Beth

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PLEASE MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?:Once again, the Pyrrhic victory of ideology over poetic sense has been exampled by that Laureatess of the Leftness, Mad Kane herself. Despite my helpful corrective suggestions to her in the past, she continues to write what she believes to be haiku, while ignoring the deeper beauty of the medium. Consider her latest barrage at the only President we have, which she

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BIG NANNY IS WATCHING: Meredith, N.H. - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Monday accused Democrats of favoring a controlling "nanny government" as he continued his bashing of the rival party. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Rudy the Unready hasn't yet learned the lesson of Dick: embrace the maternal substitute, so that if we let the voters grow up they shall not depart from the

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NEXT TO NATURE, ARTSY: Ward Churchill is not the only (soon to be ex-) ivory tower dweller who is assaulting the public complacency with subversive essays spitting in the face of our most widely accepted public myths. One of his fellow underminers is an art teacher at Dickinson College named Crispin Sartwell. He had already shown where his heart truly lies by co-editing the revealingly titled

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THERE ONCE WAS A CONTEST AT MAD KANE'S....:The Poetess Laureate of the blogging world, Mad Kane, is having another limerick-writing contest, complete with a small cash prize. This time the topic is Money. You can read more about it (and make your own entry) at this post. Since virtually anything I pen is obsessed with politics, I considered which Presidential candidate is most concerned with

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THE DEVIL AND HILL'RY ROD'AM:Yes, Hill'ry Rod'am's gone, but for a while, even before she ran for President, she was the most successful lawyer in the country. She never, ever seemed to lose a case. As a fresh law school graduate, she'd personally argued before the Supreme Court and convinced them to make abortion legal everywhere. Then she went on later to get them to ban draft registration, and

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SUCCESS IN THE WAR ON TERROR:Traitorous doubters of Our Noble Lame Duck's GWOT strategy can be reassured by the latest poll results. Taking the truly small-"d" democratic viewpoint that the public at large can best judge how safe they are, we must conclude that it's working fine. When asked "What do you consider the GREATEST threat to the physical safety and security of Americans today?", the

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SUCKER PUNCHING CONGRESS:Our Noble Lame Duck throws the gauntlet out again. He's put Sam "swift boat ad funder" Fox in the very spot he withdrew him from when the Democrats stood up against him: On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.This means Fox can remain

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THERE WAS NO CRY FOR HELP:The visitation and the funeral for my late friend are taken care of, and the memorial is yet to come. Tonight after a meeting of one of the groups suffering this startling loss, those of us who cared most learned that our friend had an almost incomprehensible (though experts say surprisingly un-rare) hidden tragedy.Any of us could and would have helped, or pointed the

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WEST ATLANTIS:Many years ago I had an idea for a story I never finished. At one point a character from California was on the east coast when she watched live TV coverage of her whole state sinking into the Pacific, as a huge new earthquake fault opened up. At the end of August in 2005 I felt the same emptiness as that character, watching Katrina devastate the place that I came from.Scout prime of

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WHY EDWARDS DIDN'T HIRE ME TO BLOG:The details are at The American Street.

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TOP HEADLINES FROM ANSNews"All Anna Nicole All The Time"Osama Bin Laden Gives Up Struggle After ANS Death Terrorist leader says he didn't hate us for our freedoms, only for our floozy.UN Says ANS Death Will End Global WarmingNew study shows it was caused by her breathy speech after all.Hillary Drops Out Of Race For PresidentSenator claims her only motive was to provide an alternative role model

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UNDERMINING FROM WITHIN: That leader of lamentable liberals, Kevin Hayden of the American Street, is taking a hiatus from blogging for several months. Foolishly, he was persuaded to allow me to co-anchor his site during his absence, as he announces here. This will be a marvellous opportunity to instill sound political and economic thinking into clueless leftist web surfers, in the hope of

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UNLACING HIS SHOES:Timothy Noah (a good New and Old Testament name, there) over at Slate has begun The Obama Messiah Watch, "Introducing a periodic feature considering evidence that Obama is the son of God." This is an excellent remedy to the patella-crushing celebrity sycophancy of the media. It's also another great excuse to bring up again my favorite guitarist:Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will

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PRIVATIZE IMPEACHMENTS.......And then they will be cheaper, and there will be more of them: A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton's impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.Bob Barr, who served eight years as a Republican congressman before losing his seat in 2002,

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WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO: It did not take the incoming Demagogocrats long to prove again that verse above from Luke (12:34), by shoving the bulk of their supporters aside from the trough and gobbling up the spoils of victory for their own elitists. According to today's WaPost: Democratic leaders this week vowed to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of

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OOOPS!! NEVER MIND!!Disregard my previous post, "How The Democrats Stole The Election". That was set up to go out automatically NEXT Wednesday, following the anticipated Democratic victory. Please ignore the software glitch which sent it out today instead, and pretend you never read that. Let it be a surprise next week.

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HOW THE DEMOCRATS STOLE THE ELECTION:Bob and Todd, why have you forsaken us?We had counted on you Urosevich brothers to deliver the votes for us and save us from the subpoenas to come. You failed. Democrats won both houses of Congress yesterday because the two of you left a door unlocked in the software. Of course, you had no reason to worry that those Democratic anti-technology advocates of

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HOBSON WAS TOO PRO-CHOCE:Some of us are delighted by all the furor over the ABC docufictory about 9-11. Those who have practiced parliamentary maneuvering for as many years as I will remember a vital principle: If you can get them arguing about the wrong question, then you don't have to worry about their answer. This synthetic tempest is a classic example of how to distract your foes, on several

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A SHEEP IN WOLF'S FERRAGAMOS: Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda.--Insight On The News (To the tune of the "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" by Country Joe & The Fish.) Hey, war bloggers, it's time to

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REJOICE WITH ME: I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Happily we welcome another refugee from reality-based rationality into our domain of empire, where we mold the minds of the masses at will. Kevin Hayden of The American Street, long considered all but hopeless for the forces

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REPORTS OF MY DEARTH...:...of postings have been largely nonexistent, though one commenter claimed I am "not gone, but only sleeping until needed again, much like her personal friend Cthulhu". I do not admit that acquaintance; surely Richard Perle is ominous enough.The old order is indeed passing before our very eyes. Continuing to chronicle the conspirings crumbling the country's quaint

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Fighting Terrorists Over Here: I have, as a proud patriot, briefly peeked out of my retreat to an undisclosed location to warn you all. The reason Our Noble Lame Duck needs to be able to data-mine the web without warrants is all those domestic terrorists openly using their sites as part of a conspiracy to bomb patriotic Americans. You know how they've already done that, exploiting the formula

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MERCI POUR TOUS LES POISSONS: No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.--Hawthorne Quelles pauvretés faudra-t-il qu'elle fasse elle aussi, jour par jour, pour arracher avec ses dents son petit lambeau de bonheur? Dites, à qui devra-t-elle mentir, à qui sourire, à qui se vendre?

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IGNORING THE BAIT:Not all the mail I get is calumny. Steve Hynd of NewsHog wrote: "I was amazed last night. I can't decide whether I think Bush or Biden sucks more right now. Biden actually said he liked Bush and that Bush could be a great President if he stopped listening to Rumsfeld and Cheney." I felt compelled to explain the reality behind the spin to the insufficiently cynical Steve, with

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DAMN, I WISH I'D SAID THAT: Never Yet Melted tells us "Let’s Bomb The Guardian, Too".

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BEST OF THE BEST: Over at The Politburo Diktat, the Commissar is having an election for the "Greatest Blog Post Ever Contest". I chipped in these two cents worth: The one that sticks in my memory as most moving to me was about the shuttle Columbia at Eject! Eject! Eject!, called Courage. Seriously, it's still worth re-reading.

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HANGING OVER YOUR HEAD.... The Warrior PrincessYou are strong, courageous, and dynamic, a woman of action. You have an iron will and a sharp tongue. Indecisive, weak, or wishy-washy people test your patience. You tend to grow bored quickly and yearn for excitement.Role Models: Brunhilde/The Valkyries, XenaYou are most likely to: Lead your people to victory against an army of orcs. What Kind of

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SACRIFICING A KNIGHT: Unless the Bush administration significantly cuts American troop levels in Iraq next year, the U.S. military's roughly 140,000-strong presence there will become a detriment to America's national security, according to a report released this week. ..."It has become clear that if we still have 140,000 ground troops in Iraq a year from now, we will destroy the all-volunteer

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DON'T ASK FOR VOTES FOR ME:(The results of the November 2005 elections, as though through the lens of Sting.)George Dubyuh, enablerOf neocon wet dreamsThey want him to invadeIraq to start their schemesRose petals will showerOur troops who free BaghdadThe neighbors will welcomeThe Ba'athist gasser deadDon't speak, don't campaignDon't ask for votes for meDon't speak, don't campaignDon't ask for

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NO, I DON'T BELIEVE IT EITHER: My blog is worth $29,356.08.How much is your blog worth?

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BUSH'S NEXT JUSTICE: The short-sighted deviationists within Our Noble Lame Duck's own party have now bludgeoned the sensitive feelings of Miers the Martyr until she fled in tears back down the hall to her office. It is time for the only President we've got to eschew compromise, and appoint someone who will be a truly effective and fearless battler for upholding the most important legal precedent

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MY PREDICTIONS:(Why not? I'm just as ignorant of the facts as anyone else on the web....)The big loser when Fitzy finally speaks will be the prosecutor himself. If he indicts Rove, the right will trash him (and I mean serious Swift Boating, not that silly mid-term memory loss that Senator Kay Bailey Hypocrisy tried). If he doesn't indict Rove, the left will condemn him (finally facing reality

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INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM:Over at Dean's World, Esmay points out a snarky catch by James Taranto of some establishment pragmatism, or as he might put it, willful blindness. Taranto quotes from the Waah! Post: Scowcroft, in his interview, discussed an argument over Iraq he had two years ago with Condoleezza Rice, then-national security adviser and current secretary of state. "She says we're going

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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: (Found at A Preview Of The Miers Confirmation Hearings.)

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PROCOL HARUM VISITS WASHINGTON:Karl exploits a typo, in "A Pallor From Her Cell" at À bas l'entropie!

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DON MCLEAN IN THE BIG EASY: Scroll down to "A Mad Bovine Pie" at À bas l'entropie!

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LUTHEROFASCISTS:In a typical burst of leftist outrage over some New Orleans police doing a Rodney King-style arrest with severe prejudice, Kevin Hayden of The American Street rants: It's never okay for the police to beat an unarmed citizen older than 60. Never. Or does someone have an example of a time when police rightly beat an unarmed senior? I felt compelled to reply: Actually, the cops were

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HUMOR IN A JUDICIAL VEIN: They start with the inevitable: Knock-Knock. Who's there? Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers who? Exactly. Then they go uphill(?) from there. Found at Buffalo Wings & Vodka, via The Agitator.

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RECONSIDERING INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Rove will appear voluntarily, but during tomorrow's session, Rove will be pressed about issues as to why his accounts to the FBI and grand jury have changed, or evolved, over time.

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A FASHIONABLY THIN DITTY:The Solicitor for the Growth on the North Side of the Tree First Encounters His Client (with apologies to Leigh Hunt).Katey bussed me on the cheek,Squeezing 'tween the bars of her cell, As if unfed this whole week,Keeping model weight to still sell.Call me fixer, call me whore,Say no guiltless one would trust me.Add this to my legal score:Katey bussed me.

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I SEEM TO BE BAD:Does anyone know the process for reporting a newly discovered species? In the midst of Gulf Gloom, I just received this email ("spelling", "spacing", "capitalization" and "punctuation" NOT corrected), which seems to reveal a hitherto unseen variety of uncomprehending misanthropy. Or is the writer not an instance of ESL classes gone to waste, but a genuine illegal extraterrestrial

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AUDIENCE CHASING?:How the mighty have fallen. MyDD reports Two years ago, Instapundit had an audience three times larger than Dailykos. Now, Dailykos is the equal of nearly the entire conservative blogosphere, and five other progressive blogs, Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, Crooks and Liars and AmericaBlog, all have audiences larger than Instapundit, which remains the largest conservative blog in

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WHY I'M NOT IN THE NRA:No, it's not because they have consistently refused to support my right to own private nuclear weapons. (If they're okay for North Korea, why not for me?) No, it's not because they still decline to make their first priority a crusade against the oppressive federal tax levied on my simple right to defend myself against loud neighbors by owning machine guns. The real reason

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FOR THE DROWNED CITY:Katrina and its aftermath overwhelmed me. Searching for a literary framework to hang my own feelings upon, I recalled a beautiful and terrifying poem by Archibald MacLeish, "Epistle To Be Left In The Earth". That Pulitzer Prize winner also penned a very timely quote: “We are deluged with facts but we have lost or are losing our human ability to feel them.” I was born in this

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I HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE WATCHFIRES: Mustang Bobby at Bark Bark Woof Woof spotted this theological dissonance: Two Christian leaders in New Orleans are testifying to God's mercy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One suggests that the death toll could have been much higher had it not been for God's mercy -- and the other that God may have used the hurricane to purge wickedness from the city.

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THE ONES THAT MOTHER GIVES YOU: Frustrated without The Clenis still in power to feel their pain, the appropriately named (for a post about the Big Easy) oyster of Your Right Hand Thief, who An old soul reports was one of the fortunate ones able to flee with their family from the deluge and chaos, vents in Blaming the Victims: I mean, jeezm, what's next? Will Grace Slick advise us that cities

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EVERYBODY PILE ON: A sudden hush fell on the crowd as Mr. Summers cleared his throat and looked at the list. "All ready?" he called. "Now, I'll read the names -- heads of families first -- and the men come up and take a paper out of the box. Keep the paper folded in your hand without looking at it until everyone has had a turn. Everything clear?" ... A growing number of righteous blogs are

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SING YOUR OWN SPECIAL SONG:It's the usual liberal double standard. Various usual suspects, such as The News Blog and Agitprop, are accusing Our Noble Lame Duck of being an "American Nero", who "casually strummed a guitar yesterday while the Gulf Coast states continued to drown." They are illustrating it with this picture: Well, if they think he's such a lousy administrator and messed up every

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J. EDGAR WAS MY HEROINE:Still the liberals insist on ad feminem attacks on Our Noble Lame Duck. The constant meme they promote of His preferential distortion by those northeastern prep schools contradicts their insistence elsewhere that those Otherwise Inclined are helpless victims of genetic programming, which itself blasphemously implies the Intelligent Designer might have had a soft spot for

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BE WERRY AFWAID:Early today, actor Christopher Walken, 62, held a private conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in which he announced his intentions to run for the Presidency of the United States in the 2008 Election.Said the Queens native, "I have always been a follower of politics. My father was friends with the mayor of Schodack (NY) back in the 1940's. We would walk the streets

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THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MULLAHS:Don't be fooled by what the usual liberal suspects are claiming is a growing civil war in Iraq. Evidence that this is all just a Potemkin jihad (yes! I coined that term!) comes from a new musical just opening in Baghdad. It was obviously plagiarized freely from Oscar Hammerstein the second's original, set in the Red State heartland of Oklahoma. The

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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF HOWARD: (With apologies to Joni Mitchell.)The way they count it, he spun,We just can't win it....Candidates are focussed on their own race:We can't poll watch all.When every loser dons a tin-foil hat,I sympathize,But -- don't call for recounts.That would just remind folks of my screaming time.Though I hate the G.O.P.,As Chair I hew the responsible line.I was a free man in

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JUDOING THE JUGGERNAUT:Every survey indicates that She Who Must Not Be Named already has the Democratic nomination for President all but locked up. Why, then, did she offend her loyalists by bothering to speak at the DLC convention? That stands, in practice if not yet in name, for Democrats Loving Corporations -- a group after my own heart, if someone must be a Democrat at all. Sadly for them,

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THE WAGES OF INGORANCE ARE DEATH: Hundreds of relatives and friends of a Brazilian shot to death in London after being mistaken for a terrorist marched along the cobblestone streets of his hometown Monday, demanding the arrest of the British police who fired the fatal shots. ..."It's easy for Blair to apologize, but it doesn't mean very much," said Mayor Julio de Souza. "What happened to English

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NO BURDEN IS HE TO BEAR: The American Street's Kevin Hayden's ailing brother Tom has now passed on. Si mon frère vivant était rentré harassé d'une longue chasse, je lui aurais enlevé ses chaussures, je lui aurais fait à manger, je lui aurais préparé son lit.... Polynice aujourd'hui a achevé sa chasse. ... Il a droit au repos.--Jean Anouilh's Antigone

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SEE, I TOLD YOU HE WAS A LIBERAL: The public needs to know the truth!! I unsuprisedly quote this post from Jusiper. Support traditional marriage, oppose John RobertsI am deeply, deeply shocked that George W. Bush would support a man who has openly engaged in the transvestite lifestyle. Please write or call Senator Brownback's office and complain about this Souter in the works: The school yearbook

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BAD COMPANY IN THE ENNEARCHY**:I'm afraid the Democrats and their captive media have intimidated Our Noble Lame Duck with their attacks on The Rovinator. Now he's trying so hard to please them that he's appointed a wild-eyed liberal, John G. Roberts Jr., to the Supreme Court. Why do I say that, when he is anti-choice, anti-flag burning, and has voted to uphold military tribunals in Cuba? Because

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THE CAT OF ARRHYTHMIA:(Part Two of three of "Beware The Cosmic Bricklayer". Part One was here. This is -- slightly edited for length -- the actual manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe's orginal prophetic vision. As with his other "stories", this was foreseen by him under the influence of serious drugs which led him into clairvoyant predictive trances. As always, his editors dumbed it down and took out

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BEWARE THE COSMIC BRICKLAYER:(Part One of three.)You probably believed your public school "history" textbooks, when they told you that the Anti-Masonic Party, those immigrant-bashing Pat Buchanans of the nineteenth century, died out long ago. Apparently their fears are still alive out in Red State America, and with good reason. Corrections: An Editorial Observer column in The Times on July 4

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THE INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED FOUR:There is good news for fans of movies adapted from comic books. No, it's not the latest such film, which cannot possibly be skewered enough. It's a new proposal for a conservative version of that story instead.The original Fantastic Four was one of the three pillars of the Marvel Comics revolution. (The other two were The Amazing Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk.

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FALLING ON MY SWORD FOR FREEDOM:The departure of the gap-truthed swing vote of the Supine Courtiers has left some liberals fuming over the past instead of planning for the future. Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged is still all unforgivingly pre-911 about the amorphous Arizonan. The pseudosymous “Dawn Summers” of Clareified has fired a drive-by shot at one of Sandy’s colleagues. Meanwhile, David Sirota

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PUTTING THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS:It's all made clear by eye of the storm (imitating the newly fashionable capital-less style, and, yes! skippy started that shiftlessness!): possibly when your average catholic priest asked himself: should i force this little boy to have sex with me? he said to himself: michael dukakis would approve! hillary clinton would dig it! the various cardinals who helped

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JOE GANDELMAN DOES DOSTOYEVSKY: This one isn't funny, but it's frighteningly insightful, and damn good writing, at BTK Killer Pleads Guilty Amid Fear And Loathing.

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THE GALL OF THESE VILLAINS: Bolstered by falling poll numbers for the President (which are irrelevant, because they will all shoot back up after the strikes against Persia Iran), the leftists are not even trying to hide the Satanic methods they are using against us. Rox Populi gleefully grinds her spiked boot in our faces by using the title "What Do Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Leo Strauss, and

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WHY BILLY GRAHAM SAID THAT:At last, a sensible explanation, from phin's blog: People are also discounting the Reverend's knowledge of future events and his divine knowledge. I've yet to see anyone mention the possibility that the Rapture is coming and the good Reverend knows the people left behind will need leadership. Since it's a pretty safe bet the Clinton's will be among the group left behind

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SAUCE FOR THE GANDER:Avedon Carol, an unconservative overseas who has cited items from my blog before, but suspiciously never permalinked me (which probably indicates more than the usual level of discernment among those not on the starboard side of the web), has discovered, at the cleverly named spectacularly obtuse blog, a tale of continuing discrimination in the land of the great Ty Cobb:

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GONE TO SEED: Yes, the liberals keep bothering us with their burdensome reminders to mention every microscopic group in every field of study, even the most obscure, irrelevant, and defunct. But they change their tune when it comes to ideological diversity. See how they yell over a mere effort to inject alternative theories into education. Well, then, let them face a really

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DIG IN: I spy with my unsleeping eye that another blogger has displayed the good taste to permalink me. This newbie, called jockeystreet, is another ex-philosophy student, who also happens to be a vegan. Now in practice, I am an effective vegan myself. That is not from a disinclination to devour fellow creatures, or a distaste for meat. Preserving a near-anorexic weight simply requires eschewing

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THE MEDIA BLOWS IT AGAIN:Sometimes one wonders if legal reporters have to flunk literacy tests. The latest example of how they fail to understand what just happened comes with today's Supreme Court ruling on posting the Ten Commandments. They've misunderstood it all. The real truth is in my post "And The King Said, Divide The Living Child In Two".

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HANG YOUR CENSERS AT THE DOOR: I see that another fine patriotic American has permalinked me. Learned Limb seems to be following in the footsteps of Jesus' General: "Learned Limb is Christ's strongman! Let no man doubt it, lest he be wrestled to the ground and showered with Christ's manly love!" Unfortunately he misses the main point of torture in his post "Sacred Purification of the Flesh". He

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JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED:Angered by the Extreme Court's new ruling that cities can serve as the paid middleman for land grabs for shopping centers (or for even more useful new baseball stadiums), some libertarians have told me this proves we don't have a conservative high court after all. They misunderstand. Conservatism is not about using government power to protect the alleged property

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THE PERVERSITY OF LIBERALISM: Yes, we always knew that they were into vile kinky sexual practices, but it's refreshing to read them actually admit it: And when wingnuts tell you such torture is deserved by terrorists who behead captives and run suicide bomb missions, remind them that the beheadings began in response to the Abu Ghraib revelations. Then tell them that even us liberals think it's

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KISSING UP: As DC awaits Billy the CJ's retirement to an impending mausoleum (or perhaps burial next to Richard the Last himself), at least one of the remaining nine is still trying to butter up his betters to grab the top spot himself: The Supreme Court overturned a Pennsylvania man's death sentence Monday, saying his court-appointed lawyers failed to adequately investigate evidence that could

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ART IMITATES LIFE: An art work purportedly made from excess fat from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sold for $18,000.Switzerland-based artist Gianni Motti claims to have bought the fat from a clinic where the leader had a liposuction operation performed.He moulded it into a bar of soap which he named Mani Pulite (Clean Hands).The work was put on display at the Art Basel fair in

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ANOTHER REASON WHY TORT REFORM IS URGENT: The graduation of students from Canada's first Inuit law program multiplied the number of lawyers in Canada's far north from one to 12. ...They are the first graduating class of the Akitsiraq law school, a joint project by the University of Victoria in western Canada and the Nunavut Arctic College that aimed to bridge the gap between Western and local

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FREEDOM FIRES?: Three former waiters at New York's posh 21 Club, where a hamburger costs $30, have filed a $5 million discrimination lawsuit saying they were fired for being French.In a civil suit made public on Monday at Manhattan Supreme Court, the three men, Rene Bordet, 68, Jean Claude Lesbre, 63 and Yves Thepault, 68, said the restaurant's management falsely accused them of drinking wine on

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THREE OF A KIND:My short example of Jungian synchronicity between a noted comic book deconstructionist, a politician practicing the same toward Kansas education funding, and the character in a classic movie western who aimed to do the same thing to an old enemy, may be found at "Inherit The Name". Or perhaps not....

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OVER THE EDGE:Now and then I check out the web to see if anyone new has permalinked to me, thus proving that they deserve a reciprocal place in my sidebar (since my policy is to only permalink to those who do so to me first). The latest one is called ZenYenta, clearly the result of carrying ecumenism way too far. Sure enough, her cultural confusion manifests itself in her politics. She is clearly

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OUT OF THE FREEDOM FRYING PAN: We can thank Gary Cruse for spotting this report that the new Prime Minister of France, following the tradition of Joan of Arc herself, is really a witch: Philippe Boggio recounts the first meeting eight years ago between M. de Villepin, 51, and the celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.During their conversation, M. de Villepin compared the philosopher and writer

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THE HANDLE TOWARD MY HAND:In the land of the disarmed bobbies, the busybodies never rest: A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. ...The research is published in the British Medical Journal.

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A SPLASH OF COLD REALITY:Doesn't it just give you diabetes, to see how TV sitcoms turn even horrible premises into silly, Pollyanna-ish, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm-style rainbows of positivism? The tragedy of poor aliens trapped on earth, held up for our mocking laughter? The agony of urban housing shortages, relegated to excuses for bedroom-shuffling antics? One of the worst offenders was a

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PAGING PROFESSOR XAVIER:Tree-huggers are always paranoid about anything synthetic, not because such products have no value, but precisely because they do. Anti-human lefties fear the evidence of achievement by real people, since those with pride of accomplishment are less susceptible to being ruled by their inferiors. This rant is inspired by an overlooked report from one of the twentieth

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SILLY CHILDREN:A writer in The Boston Globe parses the Dem wanna-bes and misses the point completely. We who support the Spread Of Compulsory Democracy abroad just don't have to care which one of these mealy-mouthed meliorists makes it. They will all lose in 2008, because they are all me-too nebbishes. Want evidence our fix is in with the media already? Most insiders have concluded that the

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DEFINE AND DEMONSTRATE:One censored ancient Greek myth is that there were in fact ten muses. The extra one you've never heard of, whose original name has been suppressed all these years, was the Muse of Puns. She was torn to death by mercenary Furies. One other form of humor, however, was completely a human invention: A related method, sarcasm, was invented a bit earlier than theatrical comedy by

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IT'S ONLY NATURAL:The leftists who complain about how the evil of money has corrupted the naive primitive innocence of mankind should be trying to cover up the latest report of scientific research from a lab at Our Noble Lame Duck's alma mater. According to a self-proclaimed polytheistic deity at Advice Goddess Blog: During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen ... witnessed was probably the first

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MY DOMINO THEORY: Once you show a moment of weakness, everything can begin collapsing like a house of cards; such are the wages of appeasement. You can see this happening all over the news. Sunni Muslim Arabs will be given up to 25 seats on the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution, President Jalal Talabani said Thursday. The announcement ... was a victory for Iraq's Sunni Arabs, who

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RIGHT OVER HIS HEAD:"Deep Throat" finally fessed up, to the surprise of nobody who had paid the slightest attention. This petty bureaucrat followed our orders very well. When he was later convicted of oppression of civil liberties, we pardoned him for it, since he was only doing what we wanted. Now he will pay for his public confessional with the agony of being praised as a hero by the very

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PUNCTURING THE WINDBAGS: Didn't you know this in your heart all along? A just-released study by a statistician at the University of Georgia ... indicates that, controlling for other factors, airbags are actually associated with slightly increased probability of death in accidents. ... The reason earlier studies have found that airbags save lives is that they used only a special subset of the

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PRIORITIES: For more evidence that the falsely-named Democrats are the party opposed to majority rule, look at Our Noble Lame Duck's own home state: With the threat of a filibuster and crafty maneuvering with Senate rules, Democrats derailed a Republican-led bill to require Texas voters to show photo identification before casting their ballots. ...Supporters of the voter ID measure say it will

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HOW TO INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT: As the French vote on the E.U. Constitution tomorrow, those overseas got to vote early. Pascal Riché reports here: A l'étranger, on votait aujourd'hui, un jour plus tôt qu'en France. Il y avait la queue au consulat de Washington. Des sandwichs au pâté étaient offerts.

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A message from the future, explaining why Frist won the filibuster fight, and who benefitted from it. It's found at "J'Accuse!".

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