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LINKS OF INTEREST

It's Dowdy-Doody Time: Maureen Dowd-Moonbat Charge Of The Day on VIDEO! Hat tip Lorie!

Lorie: Putin Thinks Bush Fired The Rathergate Reporters I have written before about how dangerous the consequences of inaccurate and misleading reporting can be, especially in relation to foreign countries.

Misunderestimate Dean? Leave aside for a moment the fact that "say what you want about..." is political speak for, "look, I know the guy is a jackass, but..." "Misunderestimating" Dean would be impossible.

John Hawkins: just because :)

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Reich--Keep Wal-Mart, But Regulate

Robert Reich has a column in the Times today. As Aaron mentioned in an email to me, it starts out pretty good, but inevitably (this is Reich, after all) goes off the tracks.

But isn't Wal-Mart really being punished for our sins? After all, it's not as if Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, and his successors created the world's largest retailer by putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to shop there.

Not sure exactly what "sins" we're committing (from the context I suspect it's the sin of wanting inexpensive products), but I agree that it's silly to demonize Wal-Mart.

The fact is, today's economy offers us a Faustian bargain: it can give consumers deals largely because it hammers workers and communities.

As the old song says, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, today's economy delivers deals because it wrings unnecessary costs out of the system. As it happens, the business that I started last year is focused on this effort. But I am not trying to do it by cutting pay, but by getting workers to be more efficient. If, through technogical improvements, I can boost productivity by (say) 20%, then I can pay my workers (say) 10% more per hour and still increase my profits.

Reich descends into self-parody after that, with a panoply of suggestions that would reduce productivity and increase costs. As usual, it is sold to us on the basis that it wouldn't cost all that much:

A requirement that companies with more than 50 employees offer their workers affordable health insurance, for example, might increase slightly the price of their goods and services.

These provisions might end up costing me some money, but the citizen in me thinks they are worth the price.

The citizen in Mr Reich may feel that way, but the consumer in him probably doesn't agree.

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More Dire News from the Middle East

Yet another event in the Middle East is showing Bush's failed policy. After Syria hands over Saddam Hussein's half brother to the Iraqis; the entire pro-Syrian (read: pro-terrorist/Hezbollah) government RESIGNS.

Freedom is on the march. I will never let any of my family and friends that are Bush Haters live this down. I don't want to hear any of the "WE" nonsense in 30 years from liberals like they do now with Reagan's policy with the Soviets.

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Breakfast with Howie

We're the warm, sweet Vermont syrup to their flat, lying, nefarious pancakes! EEEEWWWWWWWEEEEERRRRRAAGHHHHH!!!!!!!"

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Chris Rock's Monologue Part II

...they never made tank-tops in the first place.

But then Mall Security found half a million former Banana Republic employees and shoppers dead in the store room.

All the people in the Gap Catalogue and the actors in the Gap commecials decided that they new what it was like to actually work in the Gap. Then they started going around the mall and telling everyone what they thought about operation Banana Republic Liberation.

Nothing was worse, however, than when all the posurs and commercial actors decided to come together and celebrate themselves and not make one mention about the fact that the Gap helped 8 million Banana Republic employees buy stock in their own company and hire a brand new Board of Directors.

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KER-PLOP

If you didn't watch the Oscars last night (we watched Carnivale), Jordan Golson has posted everything you'll want to know, including transcripts and video clips. Video of Chris Rock's monologue: A lot of people like to bash Bush. I'm not gonna bash Bush here tonight. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I think Bush is a genius. I thought Bush did some things this year, you, nobody in this room could do.Nobody in this room could pull off ok? Cause Bush basically reapplied for his job this year. ... He started a war, that's cool, support the troops, he started a war. Now just imagine you worked at the Gap.(Laughter) You're $70 trillion behind on your register, and then you start a war with the Banana Republic...(Laughter) 'cause you say they got toxic tank-tops over there.(Laughter) You have the war. People are dying. A thousand Gap employees dead, that's right, bleeding all over the khakis.(Laughter)You finally take over Banana Republic and find out, they never made tank-tops in the first place.(Laughter-Applause) I watched the 13-minutes-plus video of Chris Rock and I thought he flopped. But that's just me. Over night ratings: 2005 30.1 RATING/43 SHARE

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START THE PRESS!

To launch their second year, Hard Case Crime is publishing a New Book by Stephen King Stephen King, master of surprise and strange twists, is taking his writing in a new direction: pulp fiction. The Colorado Kid, a paperback with a lurid, 1940s-style cover featuring a languid brunette ... comes out in October from publisher Hard Case Crime. The story: A man is found dead on an island off the coast of Maine. A local newspaperman and graduate student in forensics try to identify the man. The more they learn, the more baffling the mystery becomes. (The sexy brunette on the cover is a young newspaper intern learning the ropes.) Hat tip Rodger J!

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LINKS OF INTEREST

According to DJ Drummond: There is a lot of talk right now about the Democrats being at a crossroads. ... The same is true of the Republican Party.

John Hawkins is now strictly a blogger/writer: The timing may not have worked out exactly as I wanted, but that's life. I'm going to be doing what I want to do, when I want to do it, and that is a beautiful thing that's worth taking a risk for...

Dean Exodus: Black Dem Switches Parties Kelley, who is African-American, was too polite to say so, but a highly placed elected official in Maryland confided in me that Howard Dean himself had a hand in the party switch.

Ahhh... Memories Europe is safe because you are a weak-willed, disarmed, defeated people who have are in the strange position of not needing a military only because America has served as your defacto army for 50 years. A man after my own heart :)

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HOW WAS THIS FRAUD EVER HIRED?

original artwork drawn by the late artist Thomas E. Mails	Art signed by Prof. Ward Churchill

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill sits in his home near Boulder, Colo., during an interview Feb. 8, 2005. Officials at the university are poring over the writings of Chuchill who likened some Sept. 11, 2001, victims to Nazi's to determine whether he should be fired, but his lawyer said Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, he hasn't been told of any official inquiry. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) Thanks to reader likwidshoe, you can watch the entire newscast in which Churchill assaults the reporter.

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IS OLD EUROPE BURNING?

A protester holds a sign reading 'No Bush, you're not welcome, we don't want your massacres any more. No more complicity from Europe and Belgium' during a demonstration near the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. Thousands of protesters were expected to rally against US policy in Iraq again on Wednesday(AFP/File/Herwig Vergult)	George Pumphrey, a Washington D.C. native, and resident of Berlin, participates with a poster in an anti-Bush protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005. As part of his visit to Europe, U.S. President George W. Bush will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Mainz on Wednesday, Feb. 23. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

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T-shirts are being sold as some 500 people demonstrate, in Brussels, to protest against the arrival of US President George W. Bush coming for a three-day visit to Belgium. Bush was to call for a fresh start to US-Europe ties after bitter divisions over Iraq and urge leaders here to work with him on Iran, Syria and the Middle East peace process.(AFP/Belga/Jacques Collet)

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Protesters hold up a sign as U.S. President George W. Bush addresses a crowd of thousands gathered in Bratislava's Hviezdoslavovo Square, February 24, 2005. Bush, on a fence-mending tour of Europe, will also meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Bratislava today. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

It's difficult to know what motivates these people, whether hatred/envy of the U.S or delusions of superiority. Both? However, they must be truly ignorant of their own history, past and present, if they can accuse the U.S. and Bush of such atrocities. For years now, as I've been reading about Europe's ever-increasing vile displays of anti-Semitism, I've felt as though I had been thrust into the late 1930s. These protesters could better use their time, energies and passions if they cleaned up their own backyards. Then I read Steyn's column and felt a twinge of pity for them ... just a twinge, though, and a very short-lived one at that.

TODAY IN HISTORY: A turning point in the history of the Third Reich today in 1933 when the German Reichstag is set on fire. Discovering a Dutch Communist member called Marinus van der Lubbe in the vicinity of the fire, the authorities soon act to suppress most of the human rights in Germany at that time. Although whether van der Lubbe was responsible or the Nazis themselves set the fire, one fact is inescapable - the Nazi Party would rule Germany unchallenged from that point on until 1945.

U.S. can sit back and watch Europe implode
Even more remarkably, aside from sticking to his guns in the wider world, the president also found time to cast his eye upon Europe's internal affairs. As he told his audience in Brussels, in the first speech of his tour, ''We must reject anti-Semitism in all forms and we must condemn violence such as that seen in the Netherlands.''
The Euro-bigwigs shuffled their feet and stared coldly into their mistresses' decolletage. They knew Bush wasn't talking about anti-Semitism in Nebraska, but about France, where for three years there's been a sustained campaign of synagogue burning and cemetery desecration, and Germany, where the Berlin police advise Jewish residents not to go out in public wearing any identifying marks of their faith.
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Until the shape of the new Europe begins to emerge, there's no point picking fights with the terminally ill. The old Europe is dying, and Mr. Bush did the diplomatic equivalent of the Oscar night lifetime-achievement tribute at which the current stars salute a once glamorous old-timer whose fading aura is no threat to them. The 21st century is being built elsewhere.

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ALL THAT IS OSCAR

Will Chris Rock? ROCK SWEARS IT'S GOOD, CLEAN FUNNY CHRIS Rock promised not to use curse words, but he insisted on creative control over his stand-up Oscar performance tonight. "He wanted autonomy and they gave it to him." ... But some of his jokes have leaked out, including this presidential zinger: "Bush is not stupid. All you people who say that are wrong. You can't be an idiot and get to be president. You gotta give the guy a little credit. Anyone that's smart enough to get that far has got to be just acting dumb."

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OH, GOODIE BAGS PRESENTERS at tonight's Academy Awards will each get a choice gift basket worth several thousand dollars, including a $4,000 shopping spree from Aussie beauty company Jurlique; suites for two at the luxe Bellagio in Las Vegas; a spa getaway at the Bellagio; and dinner for two at the resort's ritzy Sensi restaurant followed by dessert at the new Jean-Philippe patisserie. Also in the goodie bag are brand-new Sprint PCS IP-A790 global phones, which A-Listers can use to stay in touch in 130 countries around the world.

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Friedman on the Tipping Point

Tom Friedman has another gem in the NY Times for Sunday.

Thanks to eight million Iraqis defying "you vote, you die" terrorist threats, Iraq has been reframed from a story about Iraqi "insurgents" trying to liberate their country from American occupiers and their Iraqi "stooges" to a story of the overwhelming Iraqi majority trying to build a democracy, with U.S. help, against the wishes of Iraqi Baathist-fascists and jihadists.

The Israel-Palestine drama has gone from how Ariel Sharon will use any means possible to sustain Israel's hold on Gaza, which he once said was indispensable for the security of the Jewish state, to being about how Mr. Sharon will use any means possible to evacuate Gaza - with its huge Palestinian population - which he now says is necessary for saving Israel as a Jewish state. The issue for the Palestinians is no longer about how they resist the Israeli occupation in Gaza, but whether they build a decent mini-state there - a Dubai on the Mediterranean. Because if they do, it will fundamentally reshape the Israeli debate about whether the Palestinians can be handed most of the West Bank.

Read it all. Friedman's really on top of his game with this one.

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I Was on the Tammy Bruce Show!

I am so giddy, I called into the show and was put on immediately. The discussion was about Condi and I totally rocked it! WooHoo!

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Condi 2008

Ahhh, John Hawkins at Right Wing News found the precise picture on the cover of the WaPo this week that had me all excited (Nod to ABP). I couldn't find it on the internet so I had to post other pictures of Ms. Thang. But this is THE one:

We need to get behind this woman in a big way. Her election in 2008 would be literally a REVOLUTION for America and the Republican party. And don't you listen to those white conservatives already talking her qualifications down like here. You don't need a president that agrees with everything. The president needs to be a rallying point that will allow the legislature to represent the people. President Bush is the perfect example with illegal immigration. Publicly, he is not the "build a wall" conservative, but if he received a bill that the people wanted--he would sign it because he knows who his base is. This is not Clintonianism Triangulation, its understanding what the Chief Executive is.

If you want to support learn more about Condi, check out these sites:

• Rice 2008
• Americans for Condi
• Condi for Prez
• Condi for President Yahoo Group
• Dr. Rice's White House Biography
• Condi for President 2008
• Stop Hillary, Draft Condi

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Ward Churchill Advocates Violence!

Jackson Junction has the video of Ward Churchill assaulting a FOXNews reporter. It's PRICELESS!

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Powell: Man of Character

Colin Powell did an interview with the London Telegraph. The interview reveals that some of what was said about his disagreements with Rumsfeld were true, but also overhyped.

The most striking and powerful excange was this:

The day before our meeting, I had told a black Washington driver that I was hoping to meet Colin Powell. He laughed, and told me to ask him if he realised that, in the end, the white man always thinks you're "just a nigger". So that is what I ask Colin Powell as we stand up to depart.

He pauses and smiles. "When I joined the army, it was only five years after the last segregated regiment had disbanded. There was a lot of discrimination. Seventeen years ago, when I joined the National Security Council, I could still detect a little of that.

"Not now. Now I'm criticised for what I do wrong, not for who I am. This country has moved so far."

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LINKS OF INTEREST

Jeff's BEAUTIFUL ATROCITIES POCKET GUIDE TO THE BLOGOSPHERE (Kitty Litter is at the end:)

Lorie tires of a leftie neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie: And He Thinks Brit Hume Should Resign

America Tunes out Hollywood The Academy nominated a bunch of mediocre stinkers no one really cares about while the most important film of the year was utterly snubbed.

Tim, at MyStupidDog: I haven't written on the whole "Jeff Gannon" business, because I'm tired of talking about homophobia on the Left.

THIS I gotta get: Just your average everyday voodoo kitchen knife holder. Hat tip Lorie!

Its Dowdy-Doody time: Swifties Slime Again [P]art of the sinister beauty of the Swift Boat method is its viral quality: it slips into a host body - "Inside Politics," say - and hijacks it. An ad it showed briefly on the Internet has now been replicated free, all over the world.

Episode II: Trace in SON OF A WHORE "Fuck me," Trace hissed to himself, "Its the Lyndon La Rouche mob." In case you missed Episode I: Trace and the leggy Lisa in POOR SONOFABITCH Her long, slender legs were entwined in the soft brown bed sheets like orphaned tree limbs littering the desert floor.

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David Brooks Classic

This column is going to have the left wing quite ill this morning.

The question is being asked now in Lebanon. Walid Jumblatt made his much circulated observation to David Ignatius of The Washington Post: "It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world."

The head of the Syrian Press Syndicate told The Times on Thursday: "There's a new world out there and a new reality. You can no longer have business as usual."

Definitely worth the read. Brooks does a slam jam thank you ma'am alabam all over the antiwar left.

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Obviously a BS Hunter Thompson Story

The NY Times, going into their usual orgasm over a countercultural hero publishes a risible story about HST:

The next Friday after work, I bought a couple of bags of groceries at the Fort Carson commissary for less than half of what they would have cost in Aspen and drove up. I arrived at Hunter and Sandy's around midnight, delivered the groceries as thanks for dinner the previous week, and ended up spending the weekend with them. I remember I brought a quart of gin from the fort's liquor store that cost about $2.50. We stayed up late drinking and talking, and when I left on Sunday, there was 2/3 of a bottle left.

Okay, obvious question? What was Hunter drinking? Pretty obviously it wasn't gin; although there has been some hefty inflation since 1969 I can't imagine him splitting 80 cents worth of gin for a weekend.

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History of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Part One: The Birth of a Cabal

1943 – It began in the final days of World War II. Eisenhower, commandeering Der Furher’s suicide bunker in Berlin, uses a garlic press to extract sperm from Adolph Hitler’s remaining testicle and smuggles the smut to U.S. military scientists in King of Prussia, PA. A dozen unsuspecting war widows are impregnated during routine gynecological exams throughout the continental U.S.

1944 – Of the twelve original Hitler mothers, only eight give birth to full-term babies. Three miscarry, and one is aborted by a maid in the pantry of a Hyannis Port mansion, the desperate mother using only a lizard’s tail and a liberal douche of 20-year-old-scotch to abort the fetus. It’s evil twin, however, unbeknownst to the mother, survives in the womb and later drops from between her legs while she’s ironing her hairshirts in the mansion's servant's quarters. The baby boy slithers off unnoticed, in search of whisky.

Ike and Churchill create Communism in Yalta by slipping Joseph Stalin 50 bucks, a box of cigars and a white slave named Natasha. Great Britain still owes us for their half of the cigars.

1945—At the close of the war, Eisenhower secretly declares himself ‘Emperor of the World’ and informs all U.S. intelligence agencies that they will report directly to him or face the same fate as the Third Reich, Tojo, Mussolini and Mamie. This is made expediently easy as J. Edgar Hoover,director of the FBI, is enthralled and enamored by Ike’s command of the Allied Forces, and becomes Eisenhower’s bitch -slave. Hoover turns over all incriminating photos, files and tapes on virtually every public official in the U.S. to ‘Emperor’ Ike. These files are still kept in Salt Lake City, disguised as the mammoth ‘genealogy’ project of the Mormon Church. Special glasses, created by Dr. Polaroid, are required to read these files; otherwise they look like normal birth records and credit card tithing receipts. Truman has a vague feling something is amiss, but chalks it up to neuralgia and latent Communist yearnings.

An escaped fascist scientist from Italy is coerced by Ike to invent thought machines for the broad dissemination of total mind control over the populace of the world. Ike is distraught it only projects in black-and-white and sentences him to become J. Edgar Hoover’s life-long handmaiden.

Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover senses Ike is gaining too much power and develops the ‘Mafia,’ and with the aid of his Italian scientist-cosmetologist-servant, performs sartorial and linguistic miracles by doing an extreme makeover on the ‘Dead End Kids,’ whose careers had been sagging since it was discovered Huntz Hall ate three to six live babies for breakfast each day. The made-over ‘Kids’ are dispatched to major cities to begin racketeering as soon as possible.

After having sex with a Russian ballerina, Truman’s penis turns bright red and falls off—the U.N. is born.

1946 – Aluminum foil is invented to protect Emperor Ike’s Elite Guard from the numbing rays of his thought machines. Prototype machines are shipped to Chicago and New York where initial test subjects become listless, sexless and obese. Ike is pleased. Television advertising agencies, a deep cover for mind-control content development, are hatched on Madison Avenue, the neural hub of Ike’s most powerful transmitters. The public launch of these ‘televisions’ is delayed as Hoover and Ike argue over creative differences and whether to use lavalier or boom microphones in the studio. In the end, Hoover wins a pyrrhic victory and installs his transvestite brother, Milton Berle, as its chief talent and clandestine operator.

1948 – When Truman is distracted by a loud noise in the basement of the White House, Eisenhower creates ‘Jews’ and sets up the puppet state of ‘Israel.’ Truman, suddenly perceiving an imbalance in the world order, retaliates by creating ‘Palestinians,’ but has nowhere to put them.

…to be continued…

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Freakin' Friday Softcore Surfin'

Quit your whining...where the hell do you think astronauts come from?

The SayAnything blog has one-stop shopping for nasty, dirty, filthy TV...

Damn! The Gawker points out, ain't nuthin' real nowadays...

SondraK takes on the politically incorrect in 3-inch heels.

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LINKS OF INTEREST

Chris Rock, conservative? Rock's abortion bit is an attack on women for the frivolous manner in which they decide whether or not to keep a child. ... [T]heres no denying the right-leaning strain underlying his social commentary. Even his economic outlook is Republican.

"Persistant vegetative state" my ass! This is a living, breathing, laughing Terri, and her husband wants to starve her to death.

Wacky Dharma coming 'round: Elfman: devote yourself to Scientology or "you could be dead." ... Scientologists who reach "OT 3" are told about "Xenu," a galactic ruler who paralyzed humans and sent them back to Earth in spaceships 75 million years ago. HOT PIX

Arlen Specter: What An Unmitigated Arrogant A$$hole AND We Demand The Immediate Removal of Arlen Specter as Judiciary Committee Chariman

If you have never watched Jennifer Shiman's 30-Second Bunnies Theater recreate the classics, you're in for a hilarious treat! My personal fave is The Shining.

Trust me, you'll love this short-short story with a surprising twist by Write Winger: Terror At the Mini-Mart

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Hard-Hitting Investigative Reporting on a Roll at ABC News

With the unprecedented success of its investigative report into the UFO phenomenon, ABC News' Peter Jennings threw down the gauntlet this morning in a candid discussion with LLP.

"We're a real news organization. We have standards. We have high principles and a thorough understanding of solid journalism," Jennings said, smoothing out a sheet of tin foil on his desk. "Hey, we didn't have any decent UFO footage, so in the best tradition of professional journalism, we came up with some kick-ass animation."

Jennings went on to say that despite 'heat' from the 'man' he'd continue to dig into the dark recesses of news where no other journalist dared to tread.

"We're thinking a two-hour special on whether Elvis Presley is still alive. Did you know Jeff Gannon is his illegitimate son?"

Jennings went on to assert this is the type of hard-hitting, fearless journalism true professionals are known for. "Filthy bloggers eat your hearts out," he said. "You can't animate your way out of a greasy donut bag."

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Ted Kennnedy Talks

Time magazine next week has an adoring piece on everyone's most 'huggable' liberal, Ted Kennedy. Remember: he is the lizard king, he can say anything...

On dealing with President Bush: "We're in some areas of confrontation, but my own sense is that this president knows how to work with Democrats. He worked with Democrats in Texas. I worked with him on No Child Left Behind."

On Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's idea to change the chambers' rules to stop Democrats from filibustering judges, the so-called "nuclear option": "The Founding Fathers addressed this issue at the Constitutional Convention and what they did was to indicate they wanted a shared power between the Senate and the executive. Some people believe the Senate should be a rubber stamp. That's not what the Founding Fathers wanted."

On Justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas ascending to chief justice: "I have no way of knowing what's in the administration's minds, but I don't personally believe the selection of those individuals on the basis of ideology wouldn't be at least questioned in the Senate."

On the Democratic Party's trying to reclaim "values": "I'm very, very hopeful and very bullish. I think we can win that battle. We value hard work and we value honesty. We think poverty in terms of the increased problems we're facing here is a moral issue. We'll win the battle on moral values."

On John Kerry's potential as a candidate in 2008: "He's going to make up his own mind and I would support him."

I encourage every one of our readers to compeltely ignore this issue of Time. With puffball answers like these, you'd think he were a reasonable, moderate politician. Anyone for an extreme makeover?

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Welcome Back!

Jeff Gannon is back and I think we can all say we are glad to see him. Check out his column on the whole thing here. But here are some good quotes:

They dug deep for dirt, dredging up things long past and erecting a fantasy world worthy of a Vince Flynn novel. What they found is domain names and sexy pictures from which sprung rumors and conspiracy theories. Based on some of the emails Ive received, many of these people were conflicted with hatred for my politics and tingling they experienced while viewing pictures said to be me.

I know I felt a tingle!

The Left is always celebrates about second chances, except when it comes to conservatives. The only exception to that rule is when a conservative goes over to the dark side, like David Brock did. I have received many emails exhorting me to betray my handlers and expose their plans, citing him as the example to follow.

See, this is a REAL man unlike David Brock. When are other gays gonna get it? Be a man, girl!

This is not to say that I have not made mistakes in the past. Like all of us have at one time or another, I made poor choices and exercised bad judgment. But I believe in a forgiving God who changed my life. It was through that renewal that I went on to have a career as a reporter and further blessed to become a White House correspondent.

Stay with God, Jeff. He loves us all and He will continue to bless you so long as you are honest with Him, faithful and consistent. Don't run from Him when it gets tough; run toward Him.

And please don't be ashamed and pull some kind of Jimmy Swaggart nonsense, k?

Sidenote: Pat, Kitty, Prof, we need to snag an interview with this guy--and I'd pay $200 bucks an hour for it! Ha!

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February 24, 2005

Gays in the Military

Consider this article on gays in the military.

Okay, with the Gannon controversy, same-sex "marriage," and the thought of another Clinton in the White House, I have been doing several posts on gay issues. I want to do one more and not scare off conservative readers (and if you are scared off by discussion of gays, we don't want you visiting our site anyway).

But I will say that after 9/11 my views on gays in the military have changed. I believe that if a man owns a house, he should be able to fight to defend it--no matter who he shares it with. If a man owns a business, he should be allowed to fight and defend it. If a gay man has children, he should be able to fight and die for their freedom.

I think Bush should reformulate the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy into a universal code of conduct (which the military already has in the UCMJ, but does not enforce fairly). If a straight guy is screwing a chic in the barracks, he should be thrown out of the army like he was sleeping with another man. If a straight guy is bragadocious about his straight sexual exploits, he should be thrown out/punished as well.

I cannot tell you of how many pictures I see coming from Iraq and Afghanistan (including ones of a family member) that show soldiers looking at straight pornographic material (magazines, movies) while on tour. I believe that this lowers morale just like any gay that might be in my company/platoon.

I just think if the UCMJ (uniform code of military justice) is applied fairly, there doesn't need to be a "Don't Tell" component because no one should be talking about the type of sex they have on the job.

What do you think?

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More Good Blogs

I've received more emails from that spam email that revealed fifty bloggers private email addresses inviting me to view their sites. There are a LOT of good blogs out there! Here's some more to check out:

• Sixhertz has a great tabloid blog with House of Pain...lots of funny photoshops and pics of hot chicks (woof! to Condi).
• Take a drive through Route 82 for some political commentary from Brian.

• Dave's Hog Haven keeps in short and sweet with his posts. If you don't feel like reading long posts, jump to his site for a quick glance at various issues.
• Pam blogs at Inside American Values. Her hit meter says 674, but it should be much higher because the site is EXCELLENT. A lot of thoughtful columns written by herself. Please take ten minutes out to catch up on what you've been missing.

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Snow Day!

Well, a two hour leave early day. OPM is stingy with letting federal employees go home ever since Bush took office I hear. Rumor has it that Clinton would let everyone go home with a hint of snow. I don't think that's true. What did upset me, however, is the fact that all schools were closed all day, but no liberal leave policy was offered for people to use sick leave instead of their annual leave to stay home and watch their children.

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What Burden?

I like Susan Estrich, but sometimes she makes no sense. First read this article about the death of her friend, who is gay, then come back and comment on what exactly this guy's burden was. I am dying to know (no pun intended). Read below for my quick take.

What I got from the article is that her friend, who was gay, accomplished the following:

• Getting in and graduating from Harvard Law
• Partner at a prestigious firm in LA where he was paid handsomely for work he loved doing
• He pioneered relationships between large corporate firms and the Lamda Defense Fund
• He died of a drug overdose

But Susan is upset because one of his peers is now Secretary of Homeland Security.

Burden?

This man, who was gay, died having accomplished more than 99% of the people in this country. I wonder if he would approve of Susan's pitty party for him; I wonder how he would feel that after all that hard work, he is remembered mostly for being gay

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LINKS OF INTEREST

2008 Watch ... Hillary and Lindsey Graham: But [Graham] will not be able to run a competative General Election campaign against Hillary Clinton after his glowing quotes about her in the current issue of New York magazine

Suicide by SPENDING? [S]he blames her shop-aholism on a mental disorder and trauma from the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ... She also said she shouldn't be held accountable ... she's manic-depressive and couldn't control her own actions.

Peggy Noonan: [Condi] has been doing something ... different in public and, I suspect, not without meaning. ... And Rice is not alone.

But He's Not Black -- anymore.... Some controversy has stirred over the fact that Michael Jackson's jury does not consist of a single black person. Well, so what? Does Michael Jackson actually think he's still black?

Rush reports from Afghanistan: The Taliban has had their ass kicked here, and there are small pockets of them. Nobody is afraid of them anymore. A lot of them are turning themselves in, wanting to change sides.

Poor sonofabitch, Trace's dick is in love: When Trace returned to the bedroom, Lisa was half-asleep. Her long, slender legs were entwined in the soft brown bed sheets like orphaned tree limbs littering the desert floor.

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Churchill Hasn't Admitted He's Not An Indian--Yet

Looks like the Hawaiian newspaper that quoted Churchill as admitting his lack of Indian heritage has backed off its report.

But Wednesday night, Lynch said a review of a tape of the speech revealed that what Churchill said was, "Let's cut to the chase on that."

Churchill went on to say his pedigree is "not important" and that "the issue is the substance of what is said," the paper reported.

Of course, all this means is that Churchill has not fessed up. He's as much an Indian as Iron Eyes Cody, the crying Indian of the 1970s Keep America Beautiful ad campaign.

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Mix for Josh Evans

Bush hangs in Belgium, Bush meets with France.
He don't give an inch to the Euro-weenie dance.
They talk the big talk, but walk the pussy walk,
Bribery, Boondoggle, pacifism hypno-trance.

Chirac's a back stab, Schroeder needs a bitch slap.
Bush shakes hands and smiles through their phony crap.
Euro trash gonna crash when their state run outta cash.
Socialism, Sissyism, mullahs snuggle in their laps.

Yo Slate!

Pictured: notorious rapper/blogger ProfShade

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Comment Free Zone

Um, are we in some kind of funk here? I haven't seen a comment on any of our posts in a whole day.

Should I say something totally controversial?

I think Barbara Boxer would make a fine president and commander-in-chief.

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Ms. Thang!

Look at those boots.

All these naysayers about her not being up for the job as president is starting to get on my nerves.

Can McCain walk into a room like this? Gorillary? <--that's my new Hillary nickname.

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February 23, 2005

Interesting Blogfellows

Yesterday, I recieved a blatant-blogger-link-whore-request from someone wanting to put a "foot in everyone's ass." (Don't ask)

The more interesting part was that I was CC'd on a list of about 50 bloggers that included the private email accounts of people like the insufferable Wonkette and the very so insightful Randy at A Little About Everything.

Well, there are some great blogs this bizarre email introduced me to; here are some of my fav'rites:

• WOOOOSH! That's the Winds of Change blowing through.
• Doug at Spider's Web.
• Charles-Fiodor Scott Nadd (and yes, he looks like a Charles-Fiodor Scott Nadd, a 15 year old, handsome young man) at Nadd.
• Doctor Dentist (not to be confused with our Doctor Dentons!) at Flap's Blog.
• The absolutely SHAMELESS and SAD shop these folks like to call the Sundries Shack. Deodorant, please? (Kidding!)
• "Contrary" to popular belief, the Conservative Contrarian is a blog whore (he wins bonus points).
• And don't foget the great blog (though redundant) of Erik Erikson (lazy parents?).

Many more to come!

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Oh yes, Right there! Episode III Pics with Spoiler

Okay, everyone should visit the blogosphere's Dentist immediately. He links to the best set of spoiler pics (with plot line) for Revenge of the Sith. Check out his blog, but don't click through to the gallery of pics if you don't want to spoil it--but I suggest doing so because it really looks THAT GOOD.

    

and then there's the gratuitous-sweaty-hot-man-in-my-bed-without-shirt-shot (or as industry folks call it...GSHMIMBWSS):

The Dentist is a little known fellow in the blogosphere, but he promises Smiles for a Lifetime so please check him out.

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Rock Solid Republican to Address Log Cabin Republican Convention

I actually sent an email of complaint.

The LCR booked Christie Todd Whitman as the keynote speaker at the Log Cabin Republican Convention.

I implored them to actually invite a REPUBLICAN to speak and not a RINO. I am all about big tent politics, but I heard a great caller on Hannity the other day scolding him about John McCain. We cannot encourage these RINOs any more; we need to support REPUBLICANS.

This is what bothers me about single issue voters. Gays believe that their life revolves around this myth of "gay marriage." So they invite Whitman who just penned an awfully arrogant book bashing conservative Republicans. This is why we will not move forward as a community if we gays are always concerned about our "gayness."

The Log Cabin Republicans are focusing more on being gay than Republican so they will have a gay ol' convention and forget all about the grand ol' party.

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Coulter: Dom Top (more on Gannon)

I love it. Here's some tidbits on her latest:

Their proof was that while "real" journalists (like Jayson Blair) were being denied press passes, Gannon had one, even though he writes for a website that no one has ever heard of – but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred! (By the way, if writing for a news organization with no viewers is grounds for being denied a press pass, why do MSNBC reporters have them?)

And then there's this zinger:

Any day now, Matthews will devote entire shows to exposing Larry Zeigler, Gerald Riviera and Michael Weiner – aka Larry King, Geraldo Rivera and Matthews' former MSNBC colleague Michael Savage. As a newspaper reporter, Wolf Blitzer has written under the names Ze'ev Blitzer and Ze'ev Barak. The greatest essayist of modern times was Eric Blair, aka George Orwell. The worst essayist of modern times is "TRB" of The New Republic.

And to mop up the mess:

Democrats in Congress actually demanded that an independent prosecutor investigate how Gannon got into White House press conferences while writing under an invented name. How did Gary Hartpence, Billy Blythe and John Kohn (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton and John Kerry) run for president under invented names? Admittedly, these men were not reporters for the prestigious "Talon News" service; they were merely Democrats running for president.

But the best is this; it's so true:

Also unlike Raines, Rather and Jordan, Gannon has appeared on television and given a series of creditable interviews in his own defense, proving our gays are more macho than their straights.

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I'm No Indian

So Churchill comes clean and admits he is no Indian...what a hero.

Nod to Drudge.

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AIN'T TOO PROUD TO TOOT MY HORN :)

Briefs and Other Unmentionables

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WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?

WITH A W FRIEND LIKE THIS . . .
DOUG WEAD? The nice man who unleashed private telephone tapes he secretly made back when he was buddying with then Governor George W. Bush as the Gov was considering a White House run and was also considering that this friend was truly a friend? Although the contents speak well of the president, we've read Dubya's become a Burning Bush over it. And rightly so. With pals like Friend Wead, who needs enemies?
Friend Wead has stated he didn't actually intend to release these tapes willfully nor would he ever . . . ever . . . ever do it in any way to profit from his old friend.
Really? Friend Wead has also said editors audited these tapes purely solely and only to confirm stuff in Friend Wead's coming booky, which was also something never expected to ever happen so far as the president of the United States of America was concerned.
Really? Not exactly how the literary industry hears it. Around publishing water coolers it's being whispered and rewhispered that Friend Wead played them for his publisher as a marketing tool. Marketing for himself, that is. It was Friend Wead's financial ploy. The tapes are what got Friend Wead an extra few quid in h