November 30, 2003

Filth

Hollywood's Hate Mongers
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nutz

  

Three boys received their grades from their female sex education instructor. One got a D+, the second a D- and the third an F. "One day we should get her for this," said the first boy. "

I agree. We'll grab her..." said the second.

"Yeah," said the third. "And then we'll kick her in the nuts!"

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So, it's come to this

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We have met the enemy and they are those guys

    Here's Goya's "Saturn Devouring One of His Children." Roll over to view political cartoonist Dave Brown's (Britain's Independent) adaption, showing  Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian child.  That this was just voted the UK's "Cartoon of the Year," by its Political Cartoon Society, pretty much sums up why the British, make that European, media are so anti any war on Islamic terrorists.  But hey, I agreed with Patton's desire to attack the Soviet Union in 1945, and MacArthur's plan to salt the Yalu river with nuclear waste in '52, so I guess my current solutions won't fly either.  Sigh. 

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Up in Smoke

  

     What doesn't make sense, to me anyway, is how this case made it to a federal appeals court in Atlanta?  In 2003? An explanation from my overpaid C&S lawyer's bar would be welcome.  

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Candy little girl?

  

     The story here isn't that a "town in New Zealand has banned children from sitting on Santa's knee because organisers fear liability if anything goes wrong (wink wink)."  The story is that a story like this, that just a few years ago would have had townspeople hanging lawyers, and burning that NOW bitch's house down the street to the ground, with her in it up in arms, will elicit a few posts like this, and that'll be the end of it.  

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Hold Page One!

  

 "Madonna was very impressed with Gen Clark's intelligence and his vision for America." 

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Must be the Hillary factor

     The AJC is telling Democrats that they may want to alter their vote manipulating software to only discard some of the military vote in '04, what with Howard Dean being so almost irresistible, don't you know?
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November 29, 2003

Note to Ken Starr: If you have a rat trapped, break its neck next time.

    It appears Her Filthiness told our G.I.s over turkey dinners in Baghdad that, "Americans are wholeheartedly proud of what you are doing but there are many questions at home about the (Bush) administration's policies."  Leaving aside the fact that those doubts are almost entirely those of like minded canker sores, only a Clinton would think to use that setting as a political forum.   I think this scenario is not only appropriate, but would have a salutary effect on morale.  Certainly mine.

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Today's Helpful Hint



 Here's my new Blog address - clip and paste to see if it works
http://Howard Dean Is My Bitch@www.terpsboy.com/

How to Obscure Any URL


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AnnoyedOne finds our Beauty of the Day!

Hillary Clinton Eats Bush's Left Overs In Iraq
11/29/2003 - Happy Dog
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Hillary took time from spitting on the troops to eat a quick meal. She then spoke to the soldiers explaining how she was proud of each and everyone, even though every single one of them were going to hell.

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What Government Does



  Here's today's quiz.  Which state's legislature actually [and recently] passed a law requiring a trapping license ($78.50, and passing a "a fairly complex test") before mousetrapping?  "We're not enforcing this for personal use," said one of the agency dickwads in charge.  But, "if you hire a neighbor to set mousetraps at your house, or perhaps hire your gardener or a pest control service, that they must have a trapping permit -- or face being arrested."  I will be disappointed if the answer wasn't rolling off your tongue before the second sentence.  [Answer - second item]
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November 28, 2003

The Dali Lama trumps the Pope's King
These guys flunked badly with:
Here's a ditty sure to be a hit
Doo dah Doo dah
called 'Hilary Clinton is a piece of shit.'
Doo dah Doo dah day
Yeah, I could do their work for them, but screw it. 
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Pope 90210

The Dali Lama trumps the Pope's King
The Vatican - Pope John Paul is visibly dismayed as the Dalai Lama Thursday shows an Ace to beat his King.  The two had agreed to cut the deck, with the  Dalai Lama putting up his leased apartment over Richard Gere's garage against the Pope's Vatican palace.  (Reuters)
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What's going on here?

    In yet another attempt at divining why the dominent media  ignored one of the great stories of the day, The Weekly Standard recycles this possibility ...

"One possible explanation is that the mainstream press is too invested in its consensus finding that  ... "
I've long thought that this is part of the explanation for why the Clinton's got a pass when it came to explaining any of their many lies.  Nobody, and especially not liberals, likes being wrong.  So,  what was the Standard referring to this time?
  1. The economy was in recessionall during the 1992 election cycle ...
  2. Bill & Hillary Clinton were not hopelessly feckless ...
  3. Al Gore was brighter than George W. Bush ...
  4. The Great Society worked ...
  5. Saddam and Osama never teamed up
  6. Vince Foster killed himself at Fort Marcy park ...

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Transparent People


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Ready!



Just the day after Thanksgiving, and the tree is up,  eat your hearts out. (1450 lights).

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Kid Stuff

     Six of these Catholic Dictionary definitions [below] are funny, because they're true.  Reading them reminded me of an event that happened to me as a 6th grade altar boy at St. Francis Borgia.  A friend of mine included this episode in a book he wrote, so if you read it elsewhere you'll know from whence it came.

Being an altar boy at a Catholic school was a big deal because:
  1. You were on display for all the girls at Sunday mass.  Kind of like a modern day rock star (albeit the Saxaphone player).
  2. You got out of class for funerals, and were often tipped a few bucks by the grieving family.  Also, you got to take the altar flowers home to your mother.
  3. Once a month, on the first Friday, the entire school had to attend "Stations of the Cross."  The Priest, attended by three altar boys (a cross bearer and two acolytes) went around the church stopping in front of each of  fourteen stations commemorating Jesus' crucification.  It was here that the girls really creamed their jeans (we we sure) if you were one of the stars.  And, it was at The Thirteenth Station that the "incident" occurred.
     This is where "Jesus is taken down from the cross, and Mary presses him to her bosom" (although that  text has changed somewhat today).  Saying,  Presses him to her bosom,  was akin to a teacher today saying, to a mixed group of 11 year olds,  "he latched on to her firm breasts and exposed her extended, rosy,  nipples."  We boys all had a good deal of trouble keeping a straight face, a fact which the nuns guarding us knew, and were on the lookout for.  That day, as we left station number twelve, Joey Schmidt  (the tallest of us, and therefore the Crucifix bearer) said sotto voice, "here comes 'bosom'."
     
     I cracked.  As Father Theissen intoned , "and pressed him to ... ," I was so nearly hysterical that I tried to bury my face in my chest to escape capture by Sister Margaret Eleanor, seated just a few feet away.  In doing that, my candle ignited my pompadour, heavily greased with Vitalis, and turned me into a human torch.  I only smelled something burning, and raucous laughter, before Sister M.E. tackled me and sat on my burning bush to extinguish it.  Pat Szatkowski, the girl of my [not yet wet] dreams was laughing her ass off, and my mortification, at that moment in time, has never, ever been surpassed.  EOS.


Catholic Dictionary

AMEN:
The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.

BULLETIN:
1. Parish information, read only during the homily.
2. Catholic air conditioning.
3. Your receipt for attending Mass.


CHOIR:
A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the congregation to lip-sync.

HOLY WATER:
A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.

HYMN:
A song of praise, usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the  congregation's range.

RECESSIONAL HYMN:
The last song at Mass, often sung a little more quietly, since most of the people have already left.

INCENSE:
Holy Smoke!

JESUITS:
An order of priests known for their ability to found colleges with good basketball teams.

JONAH:
The original "Jaws" story.


JUSTICE:
When kids have kids of their own.


KYRIE ELEISON:
The only Greek words that most Catholics can recognise besides gyros and baklava.

MAGI:
The most famous trio to attend a baby shower.

MANGER:
1. Where Mary gave birth to Jesus because Joseph wasn't covered by an HMO.
2. The Bible's way of showing us that holiday travel has always been rough.

PEW:
A medieval torture device still found in Catholic Churches.

PROCESSION:
The ceremonial formation at the beginning of Mass,consisting of altar servers, the  celebrant, and late parishioners looking for seats.

RECESSIONAL:
The ceremonial procession at the conclusion of Mass - led by parishioners trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot.

RELICS:
People who have been going to Mass for so long, they actually know when to sit,  kneel, and stand.

TEN COMMANDMENTS:
The most important Top Ten list not given by David Letterman.

USHERS:
The only people in the parish who don't know the seating capacity of a pew.


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Speaking of Hillary ...


The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals

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Well, they won't forget her ...


Hillary in Frantic Bid
to Outdo Bush in Baghdad

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WTF?


    I can only remember how pissed off I was when Clinton took the unprecedented  (wasn't everything with him?) step of interjecting himself (and the Carville gang) into Israeli politics in an effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Looks like he started a tradition.  I simply do not understand how this White House can talk out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to recognizing terrorists, and how to handle them.  I'm going to fault Bush, not because I think he doesn't know better, but for not finding a way to gain control of his own State Department.  Colin Powell is a Wesley Clark waiting to happen anyway, so why not just get it over with and start anew?
 

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Danger: Peace in our Time



"Less than two weeks after overhauling its plans for Iraq's political transition, the US is considering bigger revisions in an attempt to meet the wishes of the country's <subliminal> Iran </subliminal> most influential Shiite Muslim cleric.

"US officials said the Administration might be forced to organise elections to satisfy Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani." - [etc.]


 Jayzuz, and must ya always have to be such a jingo boy?
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And the winner of the Turkey Day Photo-op Challenge is ....

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November 27, 2003

Interesting



Dear Cecil:

The PC I am using right now would be considered pretty typical today. It has a 1 GHz 32-bit processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a hard disk of several GB. I suppose that at some point in the past, a computer this powerful would have been considered a supercomputer. The question is, how far back? Is my current computer more powerful than what nuclear scientists and NASA were using in the early 70s? Or am I trying to compare apples and oranges? --Rafael Garcia, Philadelphia

Cecil replies:

Apples and oranges? Probably, but as a demonstration of the march of progress the explosion of computing speed since the 1960s is hard to beat. The power of a supercomputer is commonly measured in "flops," which stands for floating point operations per second. The Cray-1, the most famous early supercomputer (the first model was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976), was capable of 133 megaflops (133 million flops). Early versions weighed over five tons, had a clock speed of 80 MHz, featured the equivalent of 8 MB of RAM, and cost about $9 million. In 1985 the Cray-2 was introduced, which could do 1.9 gigaflops (1.9 billion flops), operated at 244 MHz, had the equivalent of 2GB of RAM, and cost about $12 million. For comparison, a typical PC bought in 2000 or 2001 uses a Pentium 4 processor with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz, benchmarks at around 1.8 Gflops, probably cost under $2,000, and fits under your desk. In short, it's the rough equivalent of a 1985 supercomputer for one-six thousandth the cost.

Don't get smug. Your PC can accomplish only a pitiful fraction of what today's supercomputers can do. The current record holder is the Earth Simulator ultra-high-speed parallel vector computer installed at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan: it's tested at 35.86 teraflops (35.86 trillion flops) and has 10 TB (terabytes) of main memory. As has been true of cutting-edge computers for the past 60 years, the thing is huge, filling not just a room but a building. Whether its performance will be matched 15 years hence by something you can buy for $900 at Wal-Mart remains to be seen. But Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel and originator in 1965 of Moore's Law (current formulation: computer power per square inch of microchip doubles every 18 months), says we won't haul up against the laws of physics, or at least the limits of wafer technology, until 2017.

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Burnishing the Clinton Legacy




    Almost [sigh] unbelievably, the Clinton boondoggle AmeriCorps (a.k.a. Democratic Party farm system for public teat sucking)  "stands to get a huge funding boost from Congress that could swell its ranks of volunteers next year," says the Boston Globe.  What's wrong with that picture?  Huge spending boost?  Swell ranks?  Volunteers?  That's because the little dick likkers ain't volunteers, is they?  I'm beginning to think Tommy Franks' scenario has an upside.  Lots of firing squads on Capitol Hill.  (Shown, a member of the elite AmeriCorps Ninjas practices carrying loads heavier than 10 pounds.)
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A new war on drugs?


So, you witless GOP buttock-rimming scoundrels thought you could could buy terrorists off, did you? 

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November 26, 2003

This Just In

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) delivers the convocation at the Democratic "Prayer Breakfast For a Worsening Economy". An excommunicated Catholic, Kennedy forgot how to sign himself and intoned, "In the name of ... of uhh, In the name of ... does anyone remember the rest of this?" Nobody did, so he hummed the 1950's tune,
WED Nov 26, 8:47 AM ET
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) delivers the convocation at  the Democratic "Prayer Breakfast For a Worsening Economy".  An excommunicated Catholic, Kennedy forgot how to sign himself and intoned, "In the name of ... of uhh, In the name of ... does anyone remember the rest of this?" Nobody did, so he hummed the 1950's tune, "Freddy My Love, " causing considerable confusion. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
 
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Homage to Diversity

Boys "Down Under" celebrate their founding days by recreating the senior prom beach party. This was necessitated by the cruel British magistrates who banished them to faraway shores without the benefit of Pilgremettes to give them succor.

      I was wondering what the Down Under boys did in lieu of  a proper Thanksgiving to celebrate.  NZPundit  is concerned over the  "shameful occurrence of the slaughter of the innocent. (no, not sheep, but actual humans)."   John Ray ("Leftists just KNOW what is good for us. Conservatives need evidence.") pays homage to his Yankee roots by giving advice on eating turkey.  Follow the links, however, and you get some of the sweet trimmings John is famous for.  Happy Prom Day, fellas.
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A Real Thanksgiving



      This  Thanksgiving eve tomette reminds me of the History Channel's "The Real First Thanksgiving" I watched last night.  It seems that the true origins have been obscured out of political correctness.  What really happened was that, among the early Pilgrims were a group of haughty condescending know-it-alls who the other Massachusetts settlers called "arseholes," after the belligerent asses they emulated, and later shortened to (bear with me here) "Donks."  The Donks plotted with some local Indians to sell the good people into slavery in return for free turkey.  The Indians, being a noble breed, killed the Donks instead.  When they told Miles Standelwich about this, he proclaimed a day of "Thanksgiving," where the Indians brought all the food and entertained the white womyn with huge snakes they had trained to stand straight in the air.  That's the truth.  We need to go back to those old customs.
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Only a Donk ...

Active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are upset over being forced take part in a military repatriation ceremony today for remains believed to be those of the none-military brother of presidential candidate Howard Dean, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.  CLICK FOR MORE
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Anytime Amtrak Travel Tip

Riding Amtrak
Be prepared to stand when riding Amtrak

   This Thanksgiving Amtrak Travel Tip is coming too late, so we'll call it the Anytime Amtrak Travel Tip.  I snapped that pic on the way home from New York (a Sunday, on an unreserved ticket), but it could just as well have been taken on the way up (Friday, on a reserved ticket).  Amtrak oversells any train, so beware.  Here are some helpful hints, including some that  frequent trainboy Greeper had to tell me about.

Ticket prices ...  

... Have gotten way expensive, and it's often much cheaper to fly, but you can stretch your legs way out on the train, and walk around.  There are ways to cut the ticket cost from 15% -70%.

     The biggest discount (50%) is available to veterans who join Veterans Advantage ($22.95 for one year).  There are caveats.  The 50% discount is only available on "off peak hours" -- before 11 AM and after 11 PM. All other times you get a 15% discount. 

     Check here for other discounts, including regional promotion fares.  We received an additional  20% off  by citing the code for some museum deal in NYC, even though we had no intention of seeing it. Seniors discount (15%) only begin at 62.

Should I buy my ticket on line?

     Only if you like knitting needles shoved up your nose.  If there is the slightest irregularity, you will be sent back to ground zero, over, and over, and over.  But, there's another reason not to ticket online --discount layering.  You can only apply one discount code  online.  If you call, and go through the rigmarole necessary to get a human agent, you can layer discounts.  For instance, if you are a 62 year old student, and veteran, who is going to see the Corn Exhibit in Ames, IA, Amtrak will have to pay you money to ride. 

What is a reserved ticket?

     If you're traveling at peak times, it's a good idea to get a reserved ticket, since it doesn't cost a penny extra.  What it means is, you get a 5 minute head start to get a seat before the unreserved riff-raff are turned loose. 

Should I buy Business Class?

    If you want, but it costs more and you get absolutely nothing in return.  Nothing.  Same seats, same air, same everything.  Business Class is an Amscam.  There are benefits to the savvy traveler though.  There is a business class car, but no business class service, on weekends.  That means,  if a train is full you can usually waltz right into the BC car and find a seat, because nobody else (including the lone schmuck who bought BC) knows this.  The conductor will grin. 

Should I go First Class?

    I ain't never done that, but I do see all the swells sitting in their table cloth covered dining car being served caviar on toast,  It costs a lot of money though, but if you've gottem, smokem. 
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Things that work



    That last post reminded me that I have not posted the brined turkey recipe this year.  There's still time though [See below]. This will be the best turkey you ever served  (well, there is one additional step, which I mentioned last year, that will make it even better).

   Good Eats Roast Turkey 
 
     
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey

For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1/2 tablespoon allspice berries
1/2 tablespoon candied ginger
1 gallon iced water

For the aromatics:
1 red apple, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup water
4 sprigs rosemary
6 leaves sage
Canola oil

      Combine all brine ingredients, except ice water, in a stockpot, and bring to a boil. Stir to dissolve solids, then remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.
Early on the day of cooking, (or late the night before) combine the brine and ice water in a clean 5-gallon bucket. Place thawed turkey breast side down in brine, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area (like a basement) for 6 hours. Turn turkey over once, half way through brining.
    A few minutes before roasting, heat oven to 500 degrees. Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes.
Remove bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard brine.
Place bird on roasting rack inside wide, low pan and pat dry with paper towels. Add steeped aromatics to cavity along with rosemary and sage. Tuck back wings and coat whole bird liberally with canola (or other neutral) oil.
Roast on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cover breast with double layer of aluminum foil, insert probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and return to oven, reducing temperature to 350 degrees F. Set thermometer alarm (if available) to 161 degrees. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting. Let turkey rest, loosely covered for 15 minutes before carving.
Yield: 10 to 12 servings
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More reasons to get plastered



     So Maryland gets to play WVU in the Gator Bowl.  Whoop-di-do.  Since the Terps already beat the Mountaineers  90-5, or something like that, earlier in the year; and, 50 out of the last 51 times, or something,  who WGAF?  If  I'm a Maryland player, I'd find it hard to roll out of bed for this game, which means, of course, that West Virginia will win easily.  The good thing is, it's played on New Years Day so I'll be so legally plastered and won't remember the game was even played.  So, don't tell me. 
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November 25, 2003

Simpson's Fun


    Tony meets Homer
    Just two days after President Bush dined with average blokes at the Dun Cow Inn in Sedgefield, England, British Prime Minister Tony Blair reached out to Middle America with a brief appearance on a popular U.S. television show.
    In Sunday night's episode of "The Simpsons," Mr. Blair greets the cartoon family upon their arrival at London's Heathrow Airport. "Hello, welcome to the United Kingdom," the prime minister says to Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and mute Maggie.
    Asked by the precocious Bart why Mr. Blair would greet "lowlifes like us," the prime minister, who taped his segment in April, says: "Because I want to encourage all the world to see the beauty of 21st century Britain."
    "Would an American dollar encourage you to leave us alone?" Homer asks, waving a $1 bill. "No, but thank you," Mr. Blair says, grabbing the dollar and putting it into his suit pocket.
    "Tony, I mean, Mr. Prime Minister," Marge says, "what should we see first?"
    "There's so much to see here: Parliament, Stratford on Avon, the white cliffs of Dover, oh, and you Americans love castles, there's a huge one in Edinburgh, the city where I was born."
    In a classic Homerian nonsequitur, Homer says: "The place where I was born is now a gator farm," to which Mr. Blair responds enthusiastically: "Smashing."
    Lisa then asks if the prime minister can give her family a personal tour of England. Mr. Blair, a self-admitted "Simpsons" junkie who watches the show with his wife and children, responds: "I'd love to, but I'm late for an appointment: I'm greeting a lovely Dutch couple at Gate 23. Cheerio." He then straps on a jet pack and buzzes down an airport corridor.
    Not always up on the latest news, Homer deadpans: "Wow, I can't believe we met Mr. Bean."
    The show also featured another great line from Homer, who gets stuck in a "roundabout" (traffic circle). After hours of driving in circles, he declares, "I'm going to act the way Americans act best — unilaterally."
    A Fox spokeswoman said Mr. Blair's appearance was the first on the show by a world leader.  Greg Pierce
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What we need, more smartasses

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snarks around

Beauty
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Exit zero on the Jersey Turnpike


     In order to demonstrate the nincompoopery behind  "Assault Weapon" laws, that ban the sale of certain "semi-automatic" rifles through sheer ignorance,  I once posted this picture of  an 11 year old me.  I'm holding a .22 Stevens semi-auto that was made in 1939, and belonged to my dad. I photo shopped a banana clip, flash suppressor, and some other military looking stuff on to it, and ended up with .... a Stevens .22 semi-auto manufactured in 1939.  As Mr. Spoonsy discovered, some people in New Jersey don't read my blog.  Sigh. 
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Know when you've won


 Aside from his tax cuts, I cannot think of a single domestic initiative by Bush that I've agreed with, but by God I'll give him his due.  This picture of  cranky old Donks protesting AARP, a collection of  Abe Simpson whiners with an entitlement complex, and almost exclusively in the pocket of Democrats, did make me smile.  And while liberals celebrated Clinton's cunning in triangulating Republican issues; they still refer to Bush as a dolt.  They are the real idiots, who don't know when to claim victory because it never was about issues with them, but about being in charge. 
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Don't forget 'Most eminent boil-chewing hair hat'

 AmericanInTokyo  provides this exciting footage of a wild celebration in Pyongyang.  The occasion?  The number of honorable titles of respect assigned to the 'Great Leader' dictator Kim Jong-il has surpassed 1200.  The number would have been 1300, but several accolades containing the phrase "festering boil on a whore's ass" were disqualified as pejorative. 
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... and just a foot away from graduation.

A Palestinian father grieves over his son after he flunked "pin pulling" at the "Yassir Arafat Homicide Killer" boot camp in Syria.   REUTERS/Reinhard Krause Reuters - Nov 22 9:55 PM
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Stop, my side hurts ...


The previous holder of the "Our followers are so stupid we can say whatever we want" trophy was President Clinton, when,  just a few days after signing the welfare reform bill in 1996, he promised Democrats that he would not rest until the evil deed was undone."  The new champ?

 Not 10 minutes after the Senate passed the Bush prescription drug plan (sigh), with Democrat votes, Tom Daschle appeared with Lord Kennedy to announced that "Seniors are demanding that we fix this travesty." 
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We're not unpatriotic, we're Democrats


Head Freeper Jim Robinson shares with his flock this amusing E-mail from Donk Central ...

Subject: Don't let Bush question your patriotism

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:24:07 -0500

From: "Democratic Party" dnc-002Nf03W5y@mailer.democrats.org

To: "Jim Robinson" webmaster@freerepublic.com

GOP Revs Up Attack Machine

Dear Jim Robinson,

This time, they have gone too far.

We know Republicans are willing to politicize the attacks of September 11. Karl Rove explicitly told them to do so in the 2002 elections, and the Republicans even sold a September 11 picture of George W. Bush to raise money.

But now the Bush attack machine has crossed the line again. The RNC has released an advertisement that questions our Democratic candidates' commitment to keeping America secure. And they're going to keep doing it -- unless you help stop them.

Democrats and the American people are demanding honest answers from Bush on Iraq, on his State of the Union lies, and on why the White House leaked the identity of a CIA operative. But instead of leveling with the American people, Republicans are using a cheap political ploy to try and change the subject, accusing Democrats of "attacking the President for attacking the terrorists."

Bush and the Republicans dream about a country with no debate and no dissent, where they are free to push their extremist agenda with no one standing up to stop them.

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What's that word?  Oh yeah, "Masturbatory, halitosis-infested leaking carbuncle on  Ted Kennedy's ass."
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Hey Mr. Taliban
We're whacking your banana


    Two American Muslims who tried to join the Taliban were sentenced yesterday to 18 years in prison during a hearing in which they denounced the Bush administration.  One is named Patrice Lumumba Ford.  That alone gets him 20 years in the court of Schultz.  His pappy, Kent Ford, was a prominent Black Panther in Portland in the early 1970s.  Give him 20 years for bad parenting.  They sang a song at sentencing denouncing the United States, which prompted Judge Robert Jones to declare, I changed my mind; hang the bastards." 

Just kidding about that last part.
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Just Desserts


     A New Hampshire jury rejected a  widow’s claims that Philip Morris was responsible for the lung cancer death of her husband, a lifelong Marlboro smoker, reports the Union Leader.  Too bad the judge didn't order her lawyers horsewhipped for filing a meritless suit.  But that's not the story,  The story is, I thought the tobacco companies agreed to pay off our national debt, and make all lawyers billionaires, in return for a cessation of this crap.  I don't get it.  Did their check bounce?

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Comrade Historians

Academia & Communism

"When the Soviet archives were opened after the fall of the Soviet tyranny in 1991, I hungrily devoured all the information inherent in the revelations in declassified documents, disclosures from former Soviet officials, etc. They all confirmed and substantiated what conservatives had been arguing for decades -- and what common sense had long ago instructed -- that the Soviets were totalitarian, power-hungry and expansionist brutes that started and prolonged the Cold War.

"When I approached my colleagues with this new evidence, ranging from everything from the issues of the Korean war, Berlin, Soviet espionage, American communists’ links with the Soviet regime, etc., I showed how I had been correct on every issue that we had argued about for years.

"And yet, instead of hearing a mea culpa, a stated regret or admission of some kind of lesson learned, all that I witnessed, in a manner that remains extremely eerie for me to remember, was a callous indifference and smug contempt for the issues at hand. Some of my colleagues articulated a few incomprehensible justifications of their positions; others just switched topics with remarkable speed and ominous neglect. All of them condescended to me for being interested in something so “old” and “ancient.” They patiently counselled me, with a disdain and arrogance that I will never forget, to stop chasing “old ghosts” and “engaging in necrophilia.”

"And these were historians." -- In Denial

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November 24, 2003

kidstuff



One day a man came home from work to find his wife crying hysterically in the kitchen.

"What's wrong dearest?" asked the confused husband.

"Oh darling," sobbed the wife, "I was cleaning little Suzie's room when I found whips, handcuffs and chains under her bed, along with a very erotic porn magazine! What ever are we going to do?"

"Well," replied the man... "I guess a spanking is out of the question?"

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Really Bad Santa, a.k.a., Hillary's Wonderful Day

HILLARY'S WONDERFUL DAY

News that Her Filthiness is using pictures of the barbaric treatment of two U.S. corpses in Iraq brings to mind this story.
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Chez Kerry


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts makes Crepes Suzette at a campaign stop in Dover, N.H. Saturday Nov. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Tim Boyd)
AP - Nov 22 11:44 AM

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Picking my fights

 
     Nobody is more reactionary than I when it comes to our culture, but I don't get this whole flap over Disney's Bad Santa (and yes, I have made a lot of  hit loot off of it, thanks to Spoons).  First off, it looks like a funny flick.  Second, since when is Santa sacred?  And, third, it is released under the auspices of  "Dimension Films."  No, there's plenty to be pissed off at Disney over.  Like how, under Michael Eisner, Disney stock went down even during the 90's stock craze when companies selling cow poop hit triple digits.  And, Eisner's injection of politically correct horse crap into Disney films.  And, Eisner's refusal to re-release Song of the South.  But, not this. 
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Awwwk

Okay, I hate these things too, but give it a try. And don't feel bad, it took me over 5 minutes to figure it out.

 

Shown above are 4 men buried up to their necks in the ground.
They can not move so can only look forward.
Between A and B is a brick wall which can not be seen through.
They know that between them are 4 hats, 2 x black and 2 x white, but they do not know which colour they are wearing.
In order to avoid being shot one of them must call out to the executioner the colour of their hat. If they get it wrong, everyone will be shot.
They are not allowed to talk to each other and have 10 minutes to fathom it out.

After 1 minute:

Q Which one of them calls out ?

Q. Why is he 100% certain of the colour of his hat ?

This is not a trick question.
There are no outside influences nor other ways of communicating. They cannot move and are buried in a straight line. So A & B can only see their respective sides of the brick wall, C can see B and D can see B & C.
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The mind boggles ... Or is otherwise engaged.

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Thought for the day

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OMG

 

     If you haven't seen this on the Baron's site, I'll bet you can't guess who it is.  This is why I once referred to her as a female Alec Guiness, able to change identities at the drop of a hat.
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Case Closed


     I watched a spate of Kennedy assassination programming over the weekend, including new additions to Nigel Turner's series, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy."  In one, Judyth Baker gives a quite believable account of her romance with Lee Harvey Oswald (Oswald was a gofer for a biological warfare project aimed at murdering Castro through cancer and Ms. Baker was a scientist concocting the deadly compounds).  A second featured LBJ's long time mistress, Madeleine Brown, describing events she witnessed, including Lyndon orchestrating the assassination.  Yet a third segment had one of Johnson's lawyers offer evidence that, not only did LBJ have Kennedy offed, but several other people too, including his sister and her lover.  

    On the other side, Frontline aired a rerun of its "Oswald did it alone," documentary.  It was very compelling.  If you happen to be an ignorant nincompoop. 


    I don't care how many books about the Kennedy assassination you've read, I've read more (although, you're prolly smarter), and here's what I know to be true.

  • The Warren Report was a sham
    If we knew then what we know now (Kennedy's perceived obligations to organized crime, involvement with organized crime, attempts to kill Castro using organized crime, womanizing), not to mention LBJ's bill of particulars (liar, bigger liar, and crook) the Warren Report cover-up could never have been released.  Add to that, Frontline (which regularly fronts for leftist theories later proved wrong) relies largely on Gerald Posner to back them up, and you have instant loss of credibility. 

    Finally, if you care, here is my current thumbnail explanation of what transpired, based on extensive research.

     The Kennedy assassination was implemented by a "task force" that the Kennedys themselves, particularly Bobby, had assembled to kill Fidel Castro.  This motley crew included elements from organized crime, and the CIA (operating independently).  Because it was set up with the government's covert imprimatur, this organization had an unusual degree of deniability built in.  People who wanted Jack Kennedy dead included LBJ, Carlos Marcello, Jimmy Hoffa, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, and a myriad of  CIA and Texas oil millionaires.  Bobby Kennedy aided the cover-up out of necessity to protect the family's reputation, and his own political viability.  Lee Oswald was, as he claimed, the "patsy."  Case closed.
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What's that word ... shootspaw?

      So I just watched Lord Kennedy say, on FNC, that the House passed the prescription drug plan bill only after one of the greatest abuses of power in history. Republicans held the vote open for more than 2 hours.  Gawd, would I love to kick him in the balls.

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Beautiful people

    The NY POST reports two NY legislators are leading a move to have the state's bar and restaurant anti-smoking laws rolled back by permitting qualified establishments to set their own smoking policy.

    Allow business owners a modicum of control over their own destinies?  What a novel idea.  Especially when "some businesses are down by 40 percent to 50 percent because of the smoking bans."

   But, wait.  What constitutes a "qualified establishment?"
"... any bar of food-service establishment that already has a liquor license would be able to apply for a license that for $100 would permit on-premise smoking."
  God bless 'em. These people just can't help themselves.
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TIME: "We Like Editorial Balance"

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November 23, 2003

And the winner is ...

Congratulations to the BOGGER


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Bello!

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Why Donks continue to get their asses kicked



"Bob Boorstin, senior vice president for national security at the liberal Center for American Progress, said that if Mr. Bush made a good impression in Europe, it was because expectations were so low.
    "It reminded me of the debates in the 2000 election," Mr. Boorstin said. "The bar was set so low that if he spoke in complete sentences and delivered the speech, and there were no overt acts of violence, then the visit would be seen as a success."
    Mr. Boorstin, a foreign-policy adviser in the Clinton administration, said Mr. Bush did little to temper the "barrage of hatred for the United States' behavior under the Bush administration." - Bush visit to Britain silences some critics

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Sunday fun with nudges



You Know You're in San Francisco When . . .

  • You're a woman searching for Mr. Right in the personals, and you have to sort through "S&M," "BDSM," "AC/DC" and any other number of alphabet combos.
  • You're a guy looking for Ms. Right in the personals, and you have to sort through cross-dressing, transgendered, questioning, pre-op or post-op former gentlemen.
  • You're not angry because Al Gore's not the president; you're angry because you think Ralph Nader should have won.
  • Your kids find not only old toys in playground sandboxes but also used needles and condoms.
  • You see bathrooms labeled "His," "Hers" and "Others."


  • Full SanFranChron piece here.  It's a hoot.

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    Daughter? I have no daughter


    She also denies ever being married to Bill Clinton ... developing hard

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    Conclusion: Bad, but not that bad



       The assertion, by General Tommy Franks, that our Constitution will not survive a WMD attack is unsettling, to say the least.  Franks fears that a military tribunal would assume rule; our experiment in republican democracy finished.  Make that startling.  Below, I tried to imagine a series of events, as they might logically unfold, to see if I could make his prediction work.  I couldn't, but maybe you have different ideas. 

    EVENT
    REACTION
     Baltimore nuked when bomb held in Liberian registered
    freighter explodes in harbor.  Death toll in the tens of thousands, (50,000 alone amongst spectators at a Ravens game)
    FBI immediately ties ship to al-Qaeda, and the bin-Laden family.
    Bush orders terrorist bases in Iran and Syria destroyed.
    Euro's, principally France and Germany, protest our unilateral action; demand UN involvement.
    DOJ arrests over 10,000 Middle East aliens; most Congressional Democrats agree with this action. 
    Random street assassinations of Middle Eastern looking people begin.
    Bubonic plague spores released in California, Arizona and New Mexico.  Death toll mounts daily.  Citizens demand borders closed.
    All borders closed in the U.S.
    U.S. Embassies in Turkey and Spain truck bombed.  Saudi based terrorists arrested.
    US bombs several Saudi buildings known to house Islamic fanatics. 
    Dirty nuke detonated in  Tel Aviv
    Israel uses nuclear bombs on Syria. Orders all Palestinians found on street after dark shot. 
    Islamic-wide Jihad declared against all Westerners.
    Truck bombs/bio devices detonated in many European cities.  Shia's in South Iraq, and other areas kill several hundred Brits and Americans in surprise attacks. 
    West Coast leftists mount protests
    Reps. Barbara Lee and Pete Stark shot dead after criticizing U.S. during rally.  Riots break out.
    Bush declares martial law
    Rioting spreads to East Coast.  Bus carrying Freepers to Pro America rally hit by RPG.  80 killed. 
    Tactical nukes used by US against Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. 
    Russian protests muted by slaughter of non-Muslims in many ex-Soviet regions. 
    War against Islam declared by Congress.
    Firing squads execute 200 protesters found carrying explosive devices.
    American Muslims ordered arrested, detained in camps.
    Mostly cheers.   Civil libertarians silenced by fear of vigilante action.
    Domestic terror/protests subside Peter Jennings denounces "American Imperialism" on news cast.
    ABC studio in New York rocked by several blasts, destroyed.  Jennings not there Bush addresses nation, begs end of vigilantism
    Eiffel Tower destroyed by French Muslims
    Chirac blames U.S.  French citizens execute him on a Paris street. 
    A North Korean nuke, sold to al Qaeda,  used against American forces in  Qatar.
    U.S. uses seven nuclear cruise missiles on North Korea, killing an estimated 2 million NorK troops massed on 38th parallel.
    Bush approval rating hits 92%
    Barbra Streisand found dead in apparent suicide. 

        So, with no more loss of our liberties than occurred during WWII, our democracy continues in tact. Except in Vermont, where secession is voted for. Pat Leahy is elected King of the new state, "Commie Town". Nobody takes notice.

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    We don't need no gummint help



        I checked out gunner's links in the comment section here, and had this idea.  From now on, answer all application/order  survey questions (come on, we've all done it) with "07/22/1902" when you get to the 'DOB' block.  Your market worth to spammers will fall to about $0 (except to the "scare casket" spam market).
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    November 22, 2003

    Last second fumble/field goal

    Fourth year in a row Terps whip N.C. State

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    American Hero

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    Koko ... KOKO ... DAMMIT KOKO, WHERE ARE YOU?

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    Fun with Asshats

    Barbados (AFP) Senator Edward Kennedy is shown here getting help from an aide. "That goddanm 40 hour filibuster left me parched," explained his Tedness. 
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    "Rodge, you are way over the top when you say Democrats are mucus-eating, lobotomized psychiatric out-patients."

    Oh yeah? What about this James Tarnato deal?

    "On the "Kicking Ass" blog of Democrats.org, the official Web site of the Democratic National Committee, at least three posts offer similar explanations for Jacko's arrest. Example:

    "Not only CNN, but MSNBC, CNBC are also just glutting their airwaves with Michael Jackson. Very little on Bush and his trip, his Energy and Medicare bills and what people are saying, etc. Again--I think it was just a little too coincidental that CA authorities chose right now to arrest Michael Jackson."

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    Honey, will you warm up the ICBM's while I get ready?

    China has warned the United States ...

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    Maybe a nice cheap rice cooker instead?

    Sorry Yoshiko Sakamoto , but Dean Kamen did that years ago, and his offers a smoother ride. 
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    Perfect Squelch



         "The best line from the speech George W. Bush delivered in London on Wednesday was just nine words long. Referring to the throngs of British protesters railing against the U.S. President and the war he'd started in Iraq, Mr. Bush noted that Britain's "tradition of free speech, exercised with enthusiasm, is alive and well here in London." After the laughter subsided, he added: "They now have that right in Baghdad as well." - National Post
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    HOUSE PASSES MEDICARE DRUG BILL

    The previous record was 74 minutes in 1994. This vote was held open for almost 3 hours - until Speaker Denny Hastert had enough vote changes to pass the Medicare bill.

    Oh, goody.

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    More poop



    A Muslim reading the comic section in the Washington Post saw this "BC" cartoon, and felt it "only made sense metaphorically, noting the strip contained a total of six crescent moons, and wondered if it might be a cryptic slur on Muslims."

    Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's spokesman, is sure it's a defamation of Islam. -- '...slur on Islam'  (Thanks to reader Barry for the alert)

    Followup: Disgusted, the reader moved his family to Skokie, IL, and enrolled his son in the 1st grade at Madison Elenentary School, only to be disappointed again

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    School bars pilgrim, Indian costumes as insensitive



    "After a parent complained that the costumes the children had made might be offensive, the principal told the kids to leave their construction-paper headdresses on the classroom shelves.

    "Those who had opted to be pilgrims fared no better. Their paper black hats and bonnets also were banned, and for the first time in more than two decades, the 1st graders at Madison School commemorated the events of October 1621 in their school clothes." - "Are we horse whipping enough dickwads?" continued.
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    A Gore Too Far



    In an otherwise superb analysis of Gore Vidal (what is it with people named Gore?), Scott Galupo (Vidal Baboon), errs.
    "It is instructive to note how those on the left lionize killers like Ted Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh: Because their ideology was defensible, their actions were understandable (if not excusable) ... . "
        Timothy McVeigh lionized by the left?  Blowing up a  GOVERNMENT BUILDING excusable?  In what was billed as revenge for the Clinton/Reno Waco slaughter?  I don't think so.  In fact, the Feds were only able to set a modern land speed record, in executing McVeigh, because he was perceived to be one of those right wing nuts.  Which he prolly was, but at least no evidence exists that he was driven to his madness by Al Gore.

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    Deep Thoughts From Cynthia Tucker



         Insofar as religious zealots are a danger to a free society (and that danger can be quite real), the literal translation of the koran, bible, or associated manifesto is, generally speaking, a tip-off to possible loonocity.   Here, that famously liberal editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page preaches from her pulpit on the religious left.  
    "I would be forced to bow to prayers that make me uncomfortable; to salute Commandments I consider wretchedly antiquated ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's"); and to condemn good friends. (My neighbors, it happens, are a servant-less gay couple.)"
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    November 21, 2003

    Topic: XXX Culture

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    HATE



         There are lots of problems with this.  At left is the cover of  Paul Krugman's book, "The Great Unravelling."  To the right, the cover he uses to sell his screed in the U.K., complete with Cheney sporting a Hitler 'stash.  Superimposed is Vice President Cheney as depicted by leftist goons at anti-American rallies in Europe, so you know what Krugman and his publishers are inferring.  Way to go Krugman.  How come you didn't have the 'nads to use that cover here?  These same leftist pukes went ballistic if anyone even criticized Bill Clinton in print while he traveled overseas ("criticism should stop at our shore")  Now we're engaged in real conflict, a world war, and Krugman joins the legion of anti-American glitteratti who've gone offshore for the express purpose of undermining their nation's position. Most Brits are unaware that Krugman has become a joke here, thoroughly discredited, and exposed as a hack and a  liar. Probably, the only paper in America that would employ him is the New York Times. If you see him in the airport, or walking the streets of Manhattan (somebody must run into this guy, some place), it's okay to kick him in the DELETED BY OFFICE STAFF
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    I woof you



    "The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals."

    Wait a second. That sounds a whole lot more like the politically correct new prayer book of the Episcopal Church than it does the Massachusetts Constitution, which was written a very long time ago, when people didn't talk like that. I haven't had time to look it up, understand, but it sounds fishy.

    "It (the Massachusetts Constitution, that is) forbids the creation of second-class citizens."

    Oh, yeah? What about the graduated income tax? What about affirmative action in state schools?

    "The question before us is whether, consistent with the Massachusetts Constitution, the Commonwealth may deny the protections, benefits, and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry."

    No, it's not. That begs the question, which is, "Can two individuals of the same sex marry?" The self-evident answer is, "No," thank you very much.

    As Howie Carr said the other day, "I could have some kind of ceremony where I marry my dog, but that isn't marriage."

    "
    Stupid Bastards" By Lawrence Henry
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    Lunchtime Fun




    I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'

    When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and Asked him to forgive me.

    I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

    I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't Get on with my real ladder.

    A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

    Well I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said - 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From There on it was sticks and stones all the way.

    My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably Why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.

    Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.

    If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?

    I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

    You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

    I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

    Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

    I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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    ... and haven't we all been there?



    Michele captures my heart "with this encounter ...”
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    Teachers behaving badly


    "This semester I registered for a government class dealing with campaigns and elections. The first day the professor told the class that he has enough evidence to indicate that President George W. Bush truly lost the election in Florida and that in his class this would be treated as a fact rather than an opinion. Several classes later he mentioned how he went down to Florida during the election fiasco in 2000 to try to save the country from Bush. I would later drop the class for many reasons, but among them was most certainly this professor's breach of academic balance. " - "Demanding a Full Education at Cornell ...”
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    Catching ratbastardcommies

         Most people agree that the title "Worst People in America" belongs to members of PFAW, but certainly Greenpeace (America) is prominently mentioned on that  list of reprobates.  So, yes, as official inspector detector of leftist fucktard comings and goings, I am surprised that I missed this

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    Dear Diary


    Here are 2 more names (written in invisible ink) that will never again be invoked on your pages, because I'm sick of them.

    Jessica Lynch
    Michael "Wacko Jocko" Jackson

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    Mommy, it hurts

    schitzoid Republicans

    The Baron today offers a [perhaps] unintentional glimpse at the schizophrenia President Bush has inflicted on would be supporters.  At the end of  a lovely little nugget documenting rampant idiocy amongst Donk president wannabes, he correctly warns
    "Just remember: a conservative non-vote or a "protest" vote in 2004 will put one of these bastards one step closer to the White House."
    Then, immediately after taking his morning constitutional (one imagines), Kim takes pen in hand and correctly warns:
    "... many Republicans, including myself, may not vote for GWB because he's betrayed too many conservative principles -- supporting the extension of the assault weapons ban, steel tariffs, allowing government spending to grow, not supporting his judicial nominations, and so on ..."
    Zoloft and Scotch do not help.  Maybe Zoloft, Ritalin and Bourbon ... ?  I'll let you know.
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    November 20, 2003

    Save money, Live longer



       

    Drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately-without the unpleasant side effects caused by  traditional pain relievers.

    Did you know that Colgate toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns.

    Before you head to he drugstore for a high-priced inhaler filled with mysterious chemicals, try chewing on a couple of curiously strong Altoids peppermints. They'll clear up your stuffed nose.

    Achy muscles from a bout of the flu? Mix 1 Tablespoon of horseradish in 1/2 cup of olive oil. Let the mixture sit for 30 minutes,then apply it as a massage oil, for instant relief for aching muscles.

    Sore Throat?? Just mix 1/4 cup of vinegar with 1/4 cup of honey and take 1 Tablespoon six times a day. The vinegar kills the bacteria.

    Cure urinary tract infections with alka-seltzer. Just dissolve two tablets in a glass of water and drink it at the onset of the symptoms. Alka-Seltzer begins eliminating urinary tract infections almost instantly-even though the product was never been advertised for this use. [Ed. - Cranberry juice works too]

    Eliminate puffiness under your eyes.....All you need is a dab of preparation H, carefully rubbed into the skin, avoiding the eyes.  The hemorrhoid ointment acts as a vasoconstrictor, relieving the swelling instantly.

    Honey remedy for Skin Blemishes......Cover the blemish with a dab of honey and place a band-aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria,  keeps the skin sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.

    Listerine therapy for toenail fungus....Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash. The
    powerful antiseptic leaves your toenails looking healthy again.

    Easy eyeglass protection....To prevent the screws in eyeglasses from loosening, apply a small drop of Maybelline Crystal Clear nail polish to the threads of the screws before tightening them.

    Coca-Cola cure for rust...Forget those expensive rust removers.  Just saturate an abrasive sponge with Coca Cola and scrub the  rust stain. The phosphoric acid in the coke is what gets the job done.

    Cleaning liquid that doubles as bug killer....If menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets get in your home and you can't find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409. Insects drop to the ground instantly.

    Smart splinter remover.....just pour a drop of Elmers Glue-all over the splinter, let dry, and peel the dried glue off the skin.
    The splinter sticks to the dried glue.

    Hunt's tomato paste boil cure....Cover the boil with Hunt's tomato paste as a compress. The acids from the tomatoes soothe the pain and bring the boil to a head.

    Balm for broken blisters.....To disinfect a broken blister, dab on a few drops of Listerine....a powerful antiseptic.

    Heinz vinegar to heal bruises...Soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply it to the bruise for 1 hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and speeds up the healing process.

    Kills fleas instantly. Dawn dishwashing liquid does the trick. Add a few drops to your dog's bath and shampoo the animal thoroughly. Rinse well to avoid skin irritations. Goodbye fleas

    Rainy day cure for dog odor....Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.
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    We get letters

        I'm getting tons of mail like this one from Mary Sue in Pierre, SD.
      "Rodge, it's too confusing keeping track of which legislation I should be supporting, like the prescription drug bill.  Is there some way a soccer mom like me can know what's good or bad?
         Yes, Mary Sue, there is. Any legislation the United States Senate is willing to pass is very bad.  Urge your Representative in the House to vote the other way.  And vice-versa.
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    Try your hand at this (no pun intended)


    no arms and no legs (thanks to Dragon Blog
    .
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    Cover up, comrades



        In my lifetime (and we're talking San Juan Hill baby) we, the United States, have fought just one foreign war where the usual suspects have not faulted us for engaging -- WWII. Whoops, make that the war in Europe, during World War  II.  This has bugged me for a long time.  Both Hollywood, and the NY TIMES,  were  staunchly with other Americans -- for the last time -- in that fight.  This is conjecture, but had we dropped Little Boy on Berlin, instead of Hiroshima, I don't think there'd be any squawks about an Enola Gay exhibit.  What made the differenece? 
        I  weighed the possibility that Hitler's war against world Jewry was the galvanizing force, but no more.  The same folks in Hollywood and the Times have taken pro terrorist positions against the Israeli state in this current conflict.  That leaves just one possibility, as I see it.  The war against Hitler was the only war we ever fought where the survival of communism was a by-product of an American victory.  Just a thought.
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    Lunchtime Fun

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    Correcting the Dickwads

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    Just a big sweet bunny after all ...

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    The 0% Solution



    This WSJ editorial says what I said here in a comment, only better.

    <snip> "So let's be clear. Notwithstanding headlines trumpeting that Massachusetts has just opted for gay marriage, the people of that commonwealth did no such thing. It is four liberal judges on the Massachusetts Supreme Court who, egged on by well-connected and politically powerful gay rights activists, have imposed their own moral values on the rest of its citizens.

    "This is no coincidence. Despite Justice Marshall's solemn talk about an "evolving paradigm," most gay rights champions don't believe Americans have evolved that much. And they know they'd have an almost impossible time getting this new "paradigm" past most state legislatures. In other words, it's precisely the American public whom they most fear and whose voice they want to keep out of this process.

    "So they've done what liberals so often do: Provoke some state court decisions in hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will finally do the legislating for them. This sure beats having to persuade your fellow Americans through democratic debate. Did we mention that Justice Marshall's very first legal citation, in the second paragraph of her decision, is Lawrence?

    "The tragedy here is that the first casualty of an all-or-nothing court clash over "rights" is any kind of reasoned debate or workable social consensus. American attitudes toward homosexuality are plainly changing, and many companies, including the one we work for, already extend full benefits to same-sex partners. We believe that this signals most Americans are at least open to persuasion about increasing the rights of gay Americans, including but not limited to marriage." <snip>

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    Selectivity



            James Bowman  examines reasons why Britain [is] Bugged by Bush?  One reason listed is "the idea of Bush as the hayseed with the cowboy boots and the big belt-buckle who, like his father, tends to garble his sentences."  Then:
    But perhaps his worst sin against good taste is his religiosity. In the lead-up to the war in Iraq last spring, the ace British television interviewer, Jeremy Paxman had Tony Blair, the prime minister, in the hot-seat and asked him what was widely regarded at the time as a killer question. When he was meeting with President Bush in America, Paxman asked, had Blair prayed with his opposite number? Blair refused to answer, and his refusal was widely regarded as an admission that he had prayed.

    Well, why shouldn't he? What was there to be ashamed of in saying a prayer? Ah, such questions could only be asked by those outside the élites. Those within them know that over the last 20 years or so religion in general and Christianity in particular have come to be regarded almost as a species of mental illness. This is even more true in Britain than in the United States and is a big part of the reason for the protests against President Bush during his state visit to our number one ally.
         This is baffling to me.  I heard no such concerns over a First Lady's habit of carrying on conversations with dead socialists.  No Euro concerns about Bill Clinton's nascent pedophilia, or pathologies, coming from these friends who share a natural animus for all things French.  I think the answer must be that the media is focusing on the asshole elements.  But then, who gives a rat's ass what they think?
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    Views from a Wise Man (me)



        Good Lord Kathleen.  Even a group named "First Amendment Center"  has gone wobbly when it comes to  what schools may do by way of celebrating Christmas.  Charles Haynes, a senior scholar  at the center, suggests these guidelines for choral directors planning the traditional festivities.

    Before planning December holiday concerts or other activities in a public school, choral directors and administrators should ask themselves three simple questions:

    1. Do we have a clear educational purpose? Under the First Amendment, learning about religious holidays is an appropriate educational goal – celebrating or observing religious holidays is not.
    2. Will any student or parent be made to feel like an outsider by the concert or activity? Most parents and students are fine with learning about religious traditions – as long as the school’s approach is academic, not devotional. It is never appropriate for public schools to proselytize.
    3. Is our overall curriculum balanced and fair? December shouldn’t be the only time sacred music pops up in the curriculum. Students should learn about religious music from various traditions at other times of the year.
    "Will any student or parent be made to feel like an outsider by the concert or activity?"  Get real, of course some dickwad will feel "uncomfortable" (wtf does that mean anyway?) over any school assembly program.  Prolly sue, too.  The better idea is to turn this negative into a positive.  Use the opportunity to allow these people to self  identify themselves, then burn their houses down, slash car tires, and kill their pets by way of sanction.  That ought to set them on their way to new homes in Berkeley, or Vermont, where they can't do more damage.  Let common sense prevail, that's my motto.
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    November 19, 2003

    Learn to Fly in 25 Easy Lessons




    1. Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
    2. If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger.  If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
    3. Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
    4. It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
    5. The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
    6. The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool.
    When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
    7. When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.
    8. A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again.
    9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself
    10. You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
    11. The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
    Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
    12. Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
    13. Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
    14. Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made.
    15. There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
    16. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck..
    17. Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
    18. If all you can see out of the window is ground that's going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be.
    19. In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum (or balsa) going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
    20. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
    21. It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible.
    22. Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
    23. Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to appeal.
    24. The four most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, gas back at the airport, and a tenth of a second ago..
    25. There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. There are, however, no old, bold pilots.
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    Jacko tours with the Beatles

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    The End

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    Things that Work



    Euro-Pro F1066 5-Liter Electronic

    Stainless Steel Deep Fryer





          One of the few things I can claim expertise in is home fat fryers.  I just acquired my fifth one, the Euro Pro F1066 stainless steel jobby at BJ's ($59), and here are the results.  But first, there are two requirements any fryer MUST have to get the Schultz seal. 
    1. Achieve temperature of 375°
    2. Be 100% dishwasher safe (excluding the heating element)
         Our first one (T-FAL) broke down after 10 years, but it didn't meet either requirement. The other three I simply trashed, even though they worked, because none met my criteria (I am a hard ass kitchen boy).

    Removable element     Most of you know this, but for the benefit of some, here's why temperature is important.  Plunging food into hot oil will cause immediate moisture evaporation. Food cannot absorb oil as long as that moisture (escaping steam) keeps oil from getting in.  Ergo, a freedom fry cooked at proper temp (375°), in clean oil, and removed in timely fashion will contain only the oil that sticks to the surface.  That's why God gave us draining racks.  So, fried food is actually good for you (hey, vegetables without sour cream and butter, right?).  This Euro deal has a  digital  temp display, but I verified it with my own thermometer because the others lied.  It will achieve a temp in excess of  375°.   The Euro Pro also has a timer that turns the unit off, and sounds an alert, which is a very nice feature if you are becoming senile.  On the downside, it takes about 10 minutes to get up to full heat; once there, however, it recovers from batch to batch in quick order. 

       Cleaning these things is a mess.  Any part that cannot be placed in the dishwasher will become a source for al-Qaeda's supply of bio weaponry, trust me.  That's why this deal is the best I've owned.  Everything is stainless steel, and the cooking element and electronics are removable in one piece (see right) so that all else can go into the tub.

    Splatter guard    Now here's a tip on cleaning the oil.  I've tried coffee filters, wire screen, etc. to remove food and grit before it burns and ruins the oil, but here's the best thing.  Buy one of these splatter guards (about $20) and strain the oil through the very fine mesh.  It's quick, and anything left is microscopic.  If I was industrious, I'd sell these things, cut to size with a handle, specifically for this use.  Have at at, but pay me a royalty.
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    Depraved people panic

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    More Sinnesfucking

       

         Ain't this cute?  Shake down artist, and race hustler extrodinaire, Jesse Jackson, who himself is just a prosecutor with some balls away from long prison terms for embezzlement, tax evasion, and fraud, is urging that Rush Limbaugh be prosecuted for his addiction to pain medicine. Beauty JJ.
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    Plus de Sinnesfucking Monsieur?

       

        The observation has been made that leftists employ a device I call "Sinnesfucking by Proxy."  That is, to fuck over your mind by accusing you of what they themselves are guilty of.  To wit:
    "Worried about a surge in anti-Semitic attacks, France's chief rabbi has cautioned Jewish men against wearing yarmulkes in public, suggesting they wear baseball caps instead." - Associated Press
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    When Life imitates the utterly ridiculous

       
         In Monty Python's "Life of Brian," there comes a time when Brian meets the Judean People's Front.  See if this dialogue doesn't have a certain contemporary quality about it?
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    Ozark Wisdom

       


    Don't name a pig you plan to eat.

    Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.

    Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

    Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

    Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.

    A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

    Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.

    Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.

    Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

    Meanness don't happen overnight.

    To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.

    Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain't helpful.

    Teachers, bankers, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.

    Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

    Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

    Two can live as cheap as one, if one don't eat.

    Don't corner something meaner than you.

    You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.

    Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

    It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

    Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.

    You can't unsay a cruel thing.

    Every path has some puddles.

    When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

    The best sermons are lived, not preached.

    Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.

    Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day

    Don't squat with yer' spurs on

    Never smack a man in the mouth who's got chewin' tobacco.

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    LONGER


    Q: Why do women take longer than men to reach orgasm?
    A: Who cares?
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    Moon


    A retired astronaut opened an unsuccessful restaurant on the moon. The food was great, but there just was no atmosphere.
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    Roy Lester



         This WaPost story, about Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen televising locker room pep talks on the internet, made me think of the Terp's coach from 1969-1971 (with a record of  7-25-0), Roy Lester.  What fun we'd have if old Roy had access to that technology.  Once, with his team leading at the half by a scant touchdown, Lester was delivering his best Knute Rockne pep talk when one of his kids interrupted.  "Dad, I need a quarter for the Coke machine."  Roy fumbled in his pockets, then asked if any of the assistant coaches had change.  By the time little Lester got his soda the moment was lost, and the Terps were trounced in the second half. 

        Another time, trailing Wake Forest by just one point, and with less than a minute left in the game, the defensive captain called a time out.
    Lester: "Why in hell did you stop the clock?"
    Player:  "Coach, it's fourth and 10 and they have to punt.  We can win the game with a field goal."
    Lester:  "Goddammit, now we're gonna lose by four!"
    Final score:  Wake Forest 18, Maryland 14.

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    I'll take a six-pack of that Soylent Green please



        AARP, the club for geezers, is supporting Bush's proposed Medicare drug benefit plan that will be the biggest expansion of the Great Society since Lyndon Johnson was president.  For their part, more than 1000 old farts, on hand for a AARP sponsored Donkfest in New Hampshire, booed when the moderator announced the AARP's plan to promote the enabling legislation. Why?  The government won't be spending enough of their grandkid's money.
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    What government does



    DENVER - High school without seniors? Colorado lawmakers have asked education officials to study the possibility of eliminating the 12th grade and establishing a year of preschool instead. They said it would better prepare students for college by giving them an early start and possibly save money.
        Those idiots remind me of a friend who cited, as a reason to try a particular pizza parlor, "their large pizza has 12 slices instead of 10." 

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    In the 10 Ring

       

          Lots of people will be commenting on the spawn from a whore's rectum that sit on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, but none can do better than the Union Leader's editorial (reproduced below).

    WELL, WE knew it would happen sooner or later. The Massachusetts Supreme Legislature, er, we mean Supreme Judicial Court, has searched its conscience, if not the state constitution, and determined that the Bay State’s prohibition on same-sex marriage is a violation of fundamental human rights.

    Saying that the “Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals,” three of the court’s seven justices decided that the “core concept of human dignity . . . precludes government intrusion into the deeply personal realms of consensual adult expressions of intimacy and one’s choice of an intimate partner.” A fourth justice concurred with the result of the decision, though not with its reasoning, and one of mankind’s most ancient institutions was instantly redefined.

    All of the majority’s logic is just poppycock and gobbledygook. It is a meaningless diversion that only gives the feeling that something noteworthy has just been accomplished.

    In ruling that “a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community’s most rewarding and cherished institutions,” the court deemed as “arbitrary” a millenia-old tradition shared by virtually every human culture and rooted in nature.

    If reserving the benefits of legal marriage to heterosexual couples is arbitrary, then so is every other tradition, law, rule, regulation and guideline set down by every legislature, parliament, congress, council and assembly in the world. No other social institution in human history is less arbitrary.

    As Justice Francis Spina wrote in his dissent, “(W)hat is at stake in this case is not the unequal treatment of individuals or whether individuals rights have been impermissibly burdened, but the power of the Legislature to effectuate social change without interference from the courts, pursuant to art. 30 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.”

    When Justice Spina wrote that the “power to regulate marriage lies with the Legislature, not with the judiciary,” he was defending another centuries-old tradition, that of the separation of powers, which the Massachusetts court, like so many others, also has discarded.

         This is exactly right, but it's not Gay marriage that's the outrage.  The key sentence is, "All of the majority’s logic is just poppycock and gobbledygook. It is a meaningless diversion that only gives the feeling that something noteworthy has just been accomplished.."   That's been the driving rationale of liberal courts  since Griswold, and it has to stop.
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    If it's worth fighting for, it's worth biting someone's nose off to get


         I missed this fracas in the culture war, but Mother Superior heard about it on Paul Harvey's show and clued me. Lisa McClelland, a 15-year-old high school freshman at Freedom High School in Oakley, CA, noted the various race based clubs at her school - Black Student Union, the Latinos Unidos for Latino students and the ALOHA club for Asian students, and did what I would have done (if I had had any school spirit).  Lisa started a Caucasian student club.  Of course, the shit hit the fan.  Lisa received threats, was called a racist, and finally transferred to another school. We all heard about Judge Roy Moore getting tossed off Alabama's Supreme Court (which had to happen, of course), because he refused to obey a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments (which the Feds had no right to do) from his court.  While all this was going on, NYPD chaplain Imam Izak-El Mu'eed had the Koran (that's how I learned to spell it, and that's the way it stays) installed in in the lobby of NYC police headquarters.    With the celebration of the birth of Christ (aka Christmas - what, you didn't know?) upon us, you know what to expect Already, in Britain, the dickwads who run the Red Cross
    , fearing they might offend someone,  have banned the display of religious decorations.  Guess what?  I'm freaking offended.

         Of course we all know what this is about, don't we?  Stripping us of our Western culture is tantamount to the Marines shaving a recruit's head bald.  Both actions destroy the subject's identity, making it easier to build a new model with new priorities.  That's a good thing in the military, but fuck you if you try and erase my culture (and you don't have to be religious to understand  Pastor Martin Niemöller's sermon on the subject).  The older I get, the more I see that  folk cures work as well, if not better, than some of today's fancy schmantzy medicines.  Placing maggots on a  gangrenous wound can save a leg.  Herb teas have proven healing powers.  The Crusaders had the right idea all along.  See what I mean?  Let's begin fighting back.  Are you a smoker?  Not a day passes that you don't have an opportunity to smack some little "second hand" smoke weenie (who is smaller than you)  in the nose.  Once smacked, he'll keep his mouth shut.  Be creative, but don't let any of these pricks go unchallenged.  Buy a copy of  Liddy's book (WILL), and learn from it.  Buy a gun.  Make that two guns, and join the NRA.  It's time to get medieval with these c*s*rs.  Hooooah!

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    November 18, 2003

    Help me out here

     
    **Half of London's Police Will Be Guarding Bush...

    Against what threat?  The Brits have imposed draconian anti-gun laws, so they can't be worried about that.  Help me out here.
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    How Can We Fool You Today - Part MLCIII

     
         Jimmy Carter used to make news by carrying his own suitcase (which we later discovered was an empty prop).  Howard Dean keeps a stable of  stroke victims in his entourage. 
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    Bad People


         Forget for a moment the details of the case.  Judges in Massachusetts overturned a law, and smugly wrote that, "In doing so, we are mindful that this represents a change in Massachusetts law."   Calmly, and coolly, allow me to make this observation.  You have no fucking right to make law, you mother fucking Massachusetts fucktard bastards.  Scroll down a way until you come to that guy who beheads people.  Every lawless judge in this nation deserves the same fate.  Pricks.  If  I had organizational skills, I'd start the revolution myself.  Let's meet at the old barn and talk about it anyway.
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    I can use my blog as a file system if I want to

    Jumper settings for 18655 devices
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    Manhattan on $900 a day - II



        Greeper made reservations for our anniversary dinner at the Mangia Bevi ( Which means "eat me," I think, and is on 53rd & Ninth).  He was told that our table for 12 would not be held one minute after 7 o'clock, so we got there 15 minutes early (the short walk from the Sheraton, and very mild weather helped achieve the impossible).  But, when I looked in the Mangia's window, my bile rose.  Not only was the place packed, but a Greek or Italian  wedding party seemed to have just begun.  The bride (she wore a bridal veil) was on the table slapping a tambourine while everyone else was hooting and playing grab ass, and some kind of tribal music was blaring. 

         Well, we were seated pretty much on time, and the "wedding party" deal, as it turns out, is their shtick.  After  a little vino, the waiters tap the drunkest looking woman in your party, slap head gear on her, and hoist her up on the table.  Wild music plays and everyone has fun.  (Mother Superior was our virginal sacrifice.  Normally a non-drinker, she had, by that time, downed 6-7 glasses of wine and was ready). 

        Here's what we wanted in a restaurant.  Acceptable food, but great atmosphere.  We got very good food, great atmosphere, and very decent prices.  Our tab for 12, including about 5 liters of wine, and tip was $423.  That's the greatest bargain we found in all of New York (where breakfast for two runs $50).  Mangia Bevi is highly recommended. 
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    Doing the right thing



    The Saudi's offer us a model on how to deal with Democrats here at home.
    " A Saudi cleric detained this year for promoting al Qaeda-style militancy has apologised for his radicalism, saying on public television that suicide bombings and attacks against the kingdom were sinful.

    "The dramatic turnaround of Sheikh Ali al-Khodeir, who had issued religious edicts backing militants bent on toppling the Saudi royal family, appeared to be part of the kingdom's drive to wipe out public support for extremists. "[Full]

    The secret?  Simple, they behead people.  Do we have the political will to do the right thing?  I say, we must [hard as it might be].
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    If you're a failed left wing bomb throwing racist, where do you go?

    Cynthia McKinney at Cornell
    To the Ivy League, natch..
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    REALLY Filthy Democrats

    REVIEW & OUTLOOK

    Sheriff Durbin

    The Filthy Dick Durbin

    Our scoop last Friday revealing Senate Democratic strategy memos on how to defeat President Bush's judicial nominees has created quite a stir.

    Two of the memos came from the office of Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who was not amused that we gave our readers a taste of the political cynicism behind his opposition. Yesterday he got the Capitol Hill police to raid the Judiciary Committee in search of evidence of who leaked the documents. Sheriff Durbin's office told us late yesterday afternoon that the posse had entered the Committee's computer room and "removed backup tapes from the server."

    We admit it. We have sources who provided those documents to us, a practice not unknown even, dare we guess, to Mr. Durbin. His outrage at this disclosure contrasts with the notable lack of concern that his fellow Democrats showed some years back over the leak of the Anita Hill charges against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

    But since the subject's come up, let us take the opportunity to mention one more document we didn't have time to quote from in Friday's editorial. This comes from staff talking points written for Senator Ted Kennedy to deliver to his fellow Senate Democrats urging them to oppose Miguel Estrada, the highly qualified former nominee for the D.C. Circuit who happens to be Hispanic. "We can't repeat the mistake we made with Clarence Thomas," it said.

    In other words: Please don't let a "Latino" nominee (as a Durbin memo put it) who happens to be conservative get on an appellate court. His next step might be the Supreme Court. Liberal Democrats have been hiding their filibuster motives beyond high-sounding principle. What really has Mr. Durbin upset is that the public finally got a glimpse of how he really thinks.


      So, do you still think "filthy Democrats" is unfairly perjorative? -
    See Friday's editorial below
    URL for this article:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106912006081866800,00.html

    Updated November 18, 2003

    REVIEW & OUTLOOK

    'He Is Latino'

    As the Senate concludes its 30-hour talkathon on judicial filibusters, we thought readers might like to peer inside the filibustering Democratic mind, such as it is.

    This plunge into the murky deep comes from staff strategy memos we've obtained from the days when Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2001-2002. Or, rather, appeared to run the committee. Their real bosses are the liberal interest groups that more or less tell the Senators when to sit, speak and roll over -- and which Bush judges to confirm or not. Here are some excerpts:

    November 6, 2001/To: Senator Dick Durbin

    "You are scheduled to meet with leaders of several civil rights organizations to discuss their serious concerns with the judicial nomination process. The leaders will likely include: Ralph Neas (People For the American Way), Kate Michelman (NARAL), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Wade Henderson (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights), Leslie Proll (NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund), Nancy Zirkin (American Association of University Women), Marcia Greenberger (National Women's Law Center), and Judy Lichtman (National Partnership)....

    "...The primary focus will be on identifying the most controversial and/or vulnerable judicial nominees. The groups would like to postpone action on these nominees until next year, when (presumably) the public will be more tolerant of partisan dissent."

    November 7, 2001/To: Senator Durbin

    "The groups singled out three -- Jeffrey Sutton (6th Circuit); Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit); and Caroline [sic] Kuhl (9th Circuit) -- as a potential nominee for a contentious hearing early next year, with a [sic] eye to voting him or her down in Committee. They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible."

    February 28, 2002/To: SENATOR [Kennedy]

    "Ralph Neas called to let us know that he had lunch with Andy Stern of SEIU. Andy wants to be helpful as we move forward on judges, and he has great contacts with Latino media outlets..."

    April 17, 2002/To: SENATOR [Kennedy]

    "Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tried to call you today...Elaine would like the Committee to hold off on any 6th Circuit nominees until the University of Michigan case regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education is decided by the en banc 6th Circuit....The thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will sustain the affirmative action program, but if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, that new judge will be able, under 6th Circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it."

    June 12, 2002/To: SENATOR (Kennedy)

    "...Ultimately, if [Chairman Pat] Leahy insists on having an August hearing, it appears that the groups are willing to let [Timothy] Tymkovich [10th Circuit] go through (the core of the coalition made that decision last night, but they are checking with the gay rights groups)."

    Mr. Tymkovich apparently got the gay OK.

    URL for this article:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106877910996248300,00.html

    Updated November 14, 2003

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    Today's Tip

    Perfessor Owl says ...


    ... if you don't care about quality, a great way to build your blog traffic is this.  "Paris Hilton Sex Tape download"

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    FACT

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    November 17, 2003

    Lock & Load

    As the World Tribunal on Reparations for African People in the U.S." convenes in Philadelphia, members have issues besides extortion to consider.

    "The term 'African-American' in our opinion is a contradiction. You cannot be what your enemies name you and be yourself at the same time." -Chimurenga Waller, president of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement   (& Screen Door Company)

        Waller said privately that his personal choice for "African American" replacement was "African inhabitants and rightful owners of that place between Canada and the place where all the Spics live."
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    Does Al Gore get a piece of this action?

    So it appears.

    Yup, Al Gore has signed on with a company that thinks they invented water free urinals.

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    Egg

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    As good as it gets


    Dumb, Dumber And Dumbest

    Charley Reese

    Here are the statistics from the National Safety Council: In the year 2000, firearms killed 600 Americans accidentally. That's 600 out of nearly 280 million. Here are the other numbers of accidental fatalities for that year: autos, 43,000; falls, 16,200; poisons, 11,700; drowning, 3,900; ingestion of food or other object, 3,400. The only number of fatalities lower than accidental firearms deaths is that from poison gases – 400.

        The positions of most urban liberals on firearms are dumb, dumber and dumbest.

        It is dumb to suppose that the way to decrease crime is to make sure all potential victims of violent crime are disarmed. It is dumber yet to believe that a criminal will obey a gun-control law. No bank robber or rapist has ever set out and then stopped and said, "Gosh, I don't have a permit for this weapon, so I guess I'd better not rob that bank or rape that girl." No serial killer has ever said: "Gosh, I can't kill this person with an unregistered weapon. That would be against the law."

        The dumbest idea is to suppose that an inanimate object can turn a noncriminal into a criminal. To believe that guns cause crime is as stupid as believing that hammers and saws cause houses. It is the grossest kind of mindless superstition to suppose that some magical qualities of an inanimate object can overpower the human will.

        A gun is neither a romantic nor a sinister object. It is just a plain tool, like a hammer, a saw or a router. It can be used for recreation, and it can be used for self-defense. Like a chain saw, it can hurt its owner if the owner is careless or stupid. But the modern firearm is inherently safe. The gun cannot load itself or fire itself. Properly stored and used, it is safer than a stepladder or a swimming pool or an automobile. It is even safer than eating.

        Here are the statistics from the National Safety Council: In the year 2000, firearms killed 600 Americans accidentally. That's 600 out of nearly 280 million. Here are the other numbers of accidental fatalities fyearor that : autos, 43,000; falls, 16,200; poisons, 11,700; drowning, 3,900; ingestion of food or other object, 3,400. The only number of fatalities lower than accidental firearms deaths is that from poison gases – 400.

        The next time some urban liberal tells you he just wants to make firearms safer, tell him to consult the National Safety Council, stick the statistics where the sun doesn't shine and then go straight to hell for being a big, fat liar. Sorry to put it so harshly, but I can't abide lying politicians.

        I was born into a home with guns, I have lived my whole life in homes with guns, I have raised my children in homes with guns, and I have worried enormously more about their scuba diving and sky diving than I have about their contact with firearms.

        Furthermore, when I married, I assumed the responsibility for the safety of my wife and children. I was never willing to bet their safety on the possibility of my skills in unarmed combat overcoming an intruder. I suppose it comes from my Celtic blood, but when it comes to defending those I love, I'll kill any number of people to keep them safe, and I have always made it my business to have the means of doing so at hand. I gave up fair fights in the second grade. I have seen too often with my own eyes what psychopathic scum can do to innocent human beings. To use Mr. Donald Rumsfeld's style of speaking, do I trust human beings? No.

        The Founding Fathers of our country, as politically incorrect as it might be to say so, were revolutionaries who had to use violence to overthrow tyrannical rule. They wrote the Second Amendment not to make sure people could go duck hunting, but to make sure that they would have the means, if necessary, to overthrow tyranny again. The meaning of the Second Amendment is clear to all but those who hate the idea of a free people. It states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It does not say members of the militia or policemen or soldiers. It says the people, and it means every individual American citizen in this God-blessed land, whatever shyster lawyers have to say notwithstanding.

        Unfortunately, the world is still ruled by force, and a disarmed people are not free, but at the mercy of those with arms. I hate the very concept of being "at the mercy" of anyone.

        If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life. Unless you wish to spend years learning the bow and arrow and the broadsword, I'd suggest you join 4 million others and me in the National Rifle Association, lest a bunch of dumb urban politicians put you and your family at the mercy of any wandering criminal.

    November 11, 2003

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    Manhattan on $900 a day.



        We stayed at the Sheraton Towers (53rd&7th), booked through Priceline.  The hotel is a $3.10 cab ride from Penn Station (we took Amtrak), yet when I looked, the meter showed  $3.50, and we were crossing Tenth Avenue.  "Where are you going" I asked Achmed Abu.  "Where did you say you were going," he responded in sing-song Kwik-E-Martese. 
         "The Sheraton Towers, 811 Seventh Avenue; don't tell me you don't know where the Sheraton is? I responded."
        Achmed dialed a cell phone taped to the dash, and began an animated babbling.  Finally,  "There are three Sheratons.  I thought you said Eleventh Avenue." 
         What horse shit.  Two of the Sheratons are a block apart, on 7th & 8th; the third is East, over Park Ave way.  There is no way any NY cabby doesn't know where the Sheraton Towers is.  No tip for you, Abu.

    Stage Deli waitress    An even earlier attempted hustle occurred as we were leaving Penn Station, and were "assaulted" by gypsy cab drivers who would have made Abu look like June Cleaver, no thank you.  But, here's the larger reality about New York City today (I hadn't been there in a few years).  Of all the service people we came in contact with -- taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bellmen, waiters, etc., just ONE spoke passable English (our waitress at the Stage Deli where we brunched).  WTF?  Oh well, at least they're all trying to learn English, and their kids will speak it perfectly.  And, I assume they're paying taxes and are here legally.  Right?  Right. How does the FBI keep track of  them though? They are, aren't they?
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    TBO (Today's Brilliant Observation)

    Been there, done that
    ".... soon, according to an aide, his campaign will unveil a group of foreign-policy luminaries who had been advising several candidates but have recently decided to back only Clinton. The Clinton campaign seems to be shedding the last vestiges of insurgency, aiming to build a sense of inevitability  .... But, for all of his newfound respectability, the buzz from numerous Washington Democrats in the wake of Clinton's extraordinary two weeks has been a hardening of opposition rather than a cascade of previously reluctant supporters endorsing the governor." 

          Substitute "Dean" for  "Clinton," and you have a snippet from today's Inside the Beltway look at the Dean campaign.  The same sentences, however, can be found with a Lexis-Nexis search of the 1992 campaign.  Democrats were horrified over a Clinton candidacy, for myriad reasons.  He was a draft evader, not liberal enough, was linked to shady financial deals in Arkansas, and was a well know philanderer (who reputedly fathered a black bastard son). No matter. After the 1992 "Super Tuesday" Southern primaries, with Clinton holding a mathematical lock on the nomination, Democrat muck-a- mucks were still plotting ways to steal it from him.  Finally, DNC head Ron Brown lowered the hammer and said, "get over it, this is our nominee."   In the spirit of the party of LBJ & Jimmy Carter, Democrats agreed, "better a filthy bastard than a Republican," and joined claws. 

         Dean's campaign  has been a virtual carbon copy of Clinton's.  He utters enough real America buzzwords ("gun rights") to give sensible Independents (how can anybody be undecided about which party to affiliate with today?) who need a safety bar,  something to to grab hold of  (" ... okay Jill, he may be a prick, but he won't dismantle the Second Amendment.")   Remember, Bill Clinton promised a "middle class tax cut" that became the largest middle class tax hike in history.  Bill'nDean take different  approachs when wooing hard core Democratic nut cases, however.  Where Clinton refused to allow liberal leaders, like Speaker Jim Wright, and Ted Kennedy, near him in public, privately telling them that after he won they'd get plenty of face time,  Dean goes after the loon vote by siding with our enemies in the war against terror, and calling President Bush a liar, and a war criminal.  That this works says all there is to say about the state of our union. 
       
        Oh, one other difference.  When people presented Clinton with facts that contradicted his proffered "achievements" as Governor, Clinton simply lied, saying the facts were wrong, next question please.  Lacking, I suppose, Bill's sociopathic disorder, Dean is using some obscure Vermont law to embargo the records of his governorship.  In the end, they're the same person.  I'm afraid to even ask about Mrs. Dean.
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    El Perfecto Mundo


    HERE's the story, and succinct commentary that cannot be improved.

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    BloomsBurg



        By way of celebrating our Diamond wedding anniversary, Mother Superior and I were joined by family and friends in the Big Apple over the weekend to see the stage production of The Lion King.  There are no deaths, rapes, or [armed] muggings to report. I do have other stuff to tell you later.  
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    November 14, 2003

    A Gift For You



    I will be away running a marathon over the weekend, or something, so here is a box of Something FunnyDo not open (click the box) until Sunday.  Thank you. 

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    Naming a name

    The soldiers have said they acted in self-defense, that conditions were chaotic at Camp Bucca, and that guards had been harassed and assaulted daily by unruly prisoners." -3 U.S. GIs Face Charges in POW Abuse Case
        
    Unless there's overwhelming evidence that proves this is a lie, the case is closed.  In a sane world.  But this case, the Canadian troop bombing charges, the Lt. Col. Allen B. West travesty, and many others over the past 15 years, or so, cannot be blamed entirely on the bad judgment of  their military superiors for bringing charges (although it would be nice to see one fall on his sword in protest once in a while).  No, these cases are all the legacy of one Rep.Pat Schroeder D-CO, retired.  It was she, more than any other person, who waged war on the military from her chair on the House Armed Services Committee.  After she was finished with Tailhook, and other lesser known military witch hunts, survival in the ranks meant politics first, national interest second.   She is a bad, bad woman, who harmed the nation.  Bitch.
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    LOVE

    A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined:

    When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

    When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4

    "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5

    "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your french fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6

    "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4

    Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7

    Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss." Emily - age 8

    Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." Bobby - age 7

    If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." Nikka - age 6

    Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." Noelle - age 7

    Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6

    During my piano recital, I was on a stage and scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore." Cindy - age 8

    My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." Clare - Age 6

    Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine - age 6

    "Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford." Chris - age 7

    Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4

    I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4

    I let my big sister pick on me because my Mom says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her." Bethany - age 4

    When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." Karen - age 7

    Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross." Mark - age 6

    You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8
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    Holy Crap

    CLICK TO PLAY

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    Oh Zhay -- I lub you guy ...

    I recently complained about the uni-jury that, most recently, acquitted Robert Durst.  Now, by golly, we have a possible explanation. (Via Fark)
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    Newspapers

    -The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

    -The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

    -The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.

    -The Washington Times is read by people who suppose God wants them to run the country, would like to make enough money to understand the Wall Street Journal, and are comforted every morning knowing those who read the New York Times are no longer running the country.

    -USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.

    -The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L.A. to do it.

    -The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

    -The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat in the subway.

    -The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country either, as long as whoever’s running the country does something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

    -The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority lesbian feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from any country or galaxy, as long as they are Democrats.

    -The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

    -The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the supermarket.

    Author unknown
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    I've heard that song

    CLICK for KENNEDY's VIETNAM

       The History Channel has been hyping Sunday's "JFK, A PRESIDENCY REVEALED" like this:
    "Now,  JFK will be judged by his life, and not by his death"
       That can't be good news for Kennedyphiles. 

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    Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to prison


    This is not safe for work
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    Stay right there while I go get a haircut

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    Too Hot to (Pan)handle



    : The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the city of Chicago will pay about 3,000 panhandlers up to $450 each as part of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by people who claimed that their civil rights were violated when they were ticketed and arrested for peacefully begging on a public sidewalk. The paper quotes the lawyers for the plaintiffs -- who themselves will split $375,000 for their work -- as saying that the panhandlers rejected an earlier city offer of free clothing. As the paper's headline put it: "Beggars can be choosers." - WSJ
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    There's a really great teacher

    UPDATED

    Grade inflation is one way educators can make themselves look good, but ...

    "And from the wonderful world of education, Lauren Lee has received an A in honors-level geometry and an A in physical education on her report card from Sherwood High School in Montgomery County, Maryland. Thing is, she doesn't go to Sherwood High School... she goes to a private school nearby. A Sherwood High School guidance counselor, according to The Washington Times, said she was appalled, but had no explanation." Brit Hume

    NOW READ THIS
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    Maw, I need a few parts from your Singer

    Rubberband Gatling gun

        Here's an interesting decision, [U.S. v Robert Wilson Stewart, Jr.] coming from the Ninth Circuit of all places.  The Court held that a homemade machine gun, where the owner made it, or much of it, himself (parts did not cross state lines), with no demonstrated intent to sell across state lines, did not reach level of interstate commerce, therefore federal ban on machine guns did not apply.

    Need help with yours? HERE.

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    *Well, we can still hope for defeat in Iraq.



        The problem with being an ideologue who places party success ahead of  the nation's welfare is you cannot share in the  general joy good news brings. 
    "Economists expect growth to remain steady throughout 2004. Offering second-half forecasts in the Online Journal survey for the first time, they forecast growth at a 3.9% rate for both the third and fourth quarters of 2004." WSJ
    *See The Ted Rall Quotient: Americans Who Want The United States to Fail
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    It's called "dialogue" maggot breath



    Drs. Michael A. Glueck & Robert J. Cihak write a heresy that will surely cause generic maggot pie girl to wet her pantaloons, and cause Rachel Carson to attempt escape from her ring in hell.  The title Mosquitoes kill us; DDT doesn't says it all.
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    DONK DNA

        About 2:45 a.m, during the great senate pajama party, Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., started reading from Robert Caro's "Master of the Senate," which examines former President Lyndon Johnson's career in the Senate.  But, this passage (page 50) from Caro's "Means of Ascent" volume gives much better insight into Lyndon. And the Democrat party. --

    "So deeply and widley distrusted had Lyndon Johnson been at little Southwest Texas State Teachers College in the Hill Country that the nickname he bore during his years on campus was "Bull" (for "Bullshit") Johnson.  And his fellow students (who called him Bull to his face) believed not only that he lied to them - lied to them constantly, lied about big matters and small, lied so inscessently that he was, in a widely used phrase, "the biggest liar on campus -- but also that some psycological element impelled him to lie."

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    A once and splendid notion




    How about Hillary?
         Add financial wizardry to the long list of Howard Dean's bill of fare.  Gregg Pierce reports that Howie is promising to give students $10,000 for "postsecondary schooling." For those of you not as smart as Vermontians, that means college [I think]. But, Howie, how will you pay for this largesse?  "By repealing all of Mr. Bush's tax cuts."

         BTW, FORTUNE magazine has a chilling article [Taxpayer, Beware!]  about those tax cuts: "Washington will soon be taking back a good chunk of that new tax cut. How? By using the sneakiest trap it's got: the Alternative Minimum Tax."

        I think the French had just one great moment in all their history. The Terror, that saw them behead every politician (A sterile protest it seems. They replaced them with more Frenchies).
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    22 things that are true

    1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    --Mark Twain

    2. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
    --Winston Churchill

    3. *A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
    --George Bernard Shaw

    4. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
    -- G. Gordon Liddy

    5. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
    --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

    6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
    --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

    7. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    --P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

    8. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
    --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

    9. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
    -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

    10. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
    --Will Rogers

    11. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
    --P.J. O'Rourke

    12. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
    --Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)

    13. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    --Voltaire (1764)

    14. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
    --Pericles (430 B.C.)

    15. No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
    --Mark Twain (1866)

    16. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
    --(Unknown)

    17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
    --Ronald Reagan

    18. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
    --Winston Churchill

    19. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
    --Mark Twain

    20. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
    --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

    21. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
    --Mark Twain

    22. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
    -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995

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    November 13, 2003

    The less fortunate

         I'm watching Virginia play football at Maryland, on ESPN.   I know that Virginia alum love to bring their kids to these games at College Park;  it's the opportunity of a life time for them.  They get to see  NCAA  Championship  trophies on display.  NCAA Football Championship.  NCAA Basketball Championship.  These awards are only rumors in Charlottsville, so live vicariously Wahoos.   (The score is 21-7 as we speak, good guys.  Josh Allen with 157 yards rushing for the Terps, midway through the 2nd period.)

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    Normandy, France - June 6, 1944


    "Pandemonium, shock and sheer terror predominate today’s events in Europe.

    In an as yet unfolding apparent fiasco, Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight David Eisenhower’s troops got a rude awakening this morning at Omaha Beach here in Normandy.

    Due to insufficient planning and lack of a workable entrance strategy soldiers of the 1st and 29th Infantry as well as Army Rangers are now bogged down and sustaining heavy casualties inflicted on them by dug-in insurgent positions located 170 feet above them on cliffs overlooking the beaches which now resemble blood soaked killing fields at the time of this mid-morning filing." - Tragic French Offensive Stalled On Beaches

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    Topic: Pukoids

    If any of you had doubts that Patrick Leahy is the pulp of a stultifying canker sore I say he is, follow this road.
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    I'm not making this up


    I'm using the "rollover" device to save you from the more horrid graphic in this story.  (Thanks to The New American Revolutionist for finding this)
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    I'm not kidding

    Not only has Arnold Schwarzenegger flunked his first exam, he deserves expulsion from class.  If I see him, I'll kick his ass.
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    TERPS!

    Terps whack BYU
    This is great.  Maryland gets to beat BYU's ass already-- in next year's NCAA's.    Next: Connecticut
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    "If you don't admit it, they can never prove it." - Clinton mantra

     


         Quick, if you are a fashion house trying to challenge La Coutiere Magnificos, who is the last person (after Janet Reno) you would pay $2 million dollars to model your stuff?  If this is not more quid pro quo from the reign of terror, I don't know what it could be.
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    Lunchtime fun

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    Depraved unions

     

    After this display of depravity by der Krautski's, can anyone be surprised they would seek an alliance with the filthy French? 
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    Man, does this ever bring back memories

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    The sleazy Lamar Alexander is as crooked as Bill Clinton

    "The effort to make permanent a temporary ban on Internet-access taxes has stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. But don't blame the Democrats.

    "Fault instead two GOP Senators, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and George Voinovich of Ohio. Both are using procedural legerdemain to prevent a vote on the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, a provision that not only keeps the taxman away from your AOL or EarthLink account but also bans "multiple or discriminatory" levies on electronic commerce. A temporary Internet tax moratorium, in place for the past five years, expired on November 1. If Congress doesn't act to extend it before winter recess, don't be surprised by a yuletide e-mail tax." - WSJ Editorial

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    Good one, Jeb

    Gov. Jeb Bush  said at a Florida Cabinet meeting on environmental land issues:
    "It looks like the people of San Francisco are an endangered species, which may not be a bad thing ... That's probably good news for the country."

    People in the room broke into laughter

    "Did I just say that out loud?" the governor asked.

        San Francisco mayor Willy Brown evidently laughed it off, but not so the dickwads who are the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
    "It's extremely insulting," said Matt Foreman. "But of course I would say that gay people in Florida are far more endangered than gay people in California."
    I guess if you're looking for reasons to be offended, you will always find some.  Real Americans are disgusted with the Bay area because of their love affair with totalitarian government, and  refusal to burn Cal-Berkeley to the ground.  That's all. Good one, Jeb.
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    dickwads de la dickwads

    I've long contended that there is a bus load of jurors, a collection of dickwads de la dickwads, if you will (certainly, no more than 12 Americans could be so utterly stupid?) who travel the court circuit looking for murderers to set free.  They were here, and here, and now we learn they have been plying their trade Galveston.

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    crap-de-la-crap

    People are always stopping me in K-Mart and asking, "Rodge, we know that all elected Democrats are filthy liars, but do you have a list of the crap-de-la-crap?"

    Indeed, I do.
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    New York's tasteless, clueless mayor

    And, remember, this ratbastard was the lesser of two evils.

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    You bastards


    When I was fighting the Kaiser there was no such thing as "noise abatement" devices to protect the hearing.  A lifetime of  sitting right in front of the 800 watt speakers, and firing about a million rounds of ammo, have made this a necessary thing at times.   Now the bastards want to take it away.  Don't let them. 
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    Tip This

    Tip This

    Cuzzin Ricky sent me Tipping Points in the War on Terror, with the suggestion that it was "worthy of consideration."  The author, Mark Goldblatt, asserts that the war on terror has produced the most ironic paradox in the history of warfare:
    "... ordinary Americans, who sponsor a military capable of incinerating every Muslim city, town and village in which terrorists operate, lie awake at night worrying about the mood of the Muslim Street, but ordinary Muslims, who know full well what the American military can do, lose no sleep whatsoever worrying about the mood of the American Street."
    But, there are tipping points, and maybe a reverse-tipping point, that could change the nature of how we fight these terrorists.
    "What if there were a moment at which the American public became so appalled by the casualties and costs of the Iraqi occupation that President Bush felt compelled to bring the hammer down … a moment when C-Span was filled with hard-right demonstrators demanding that Bush subdue the terrorists by any means necessary, a moment when a revered Republican senator quoted Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, urging the president "to get medieval on their asses," a moment when conservative pundits clamored for Bush to, say, level Tikrit to pacify Fallujah, or level them both to pacify Baghdad?"
    Of course, I am hi-liting the stuff that makes me feel good, but, yes, it is worthy of consideration.
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    du Toit was right


    A gun store clerk told me recently that many young men come into his shop offering to sell their entire gun collections. They dump the weapons on the counter and announce, "I’m getting married and my fiancée says it’s either me or the guns."

    The anti-gun ideology has burrowed its way into the tenderest corner of Americans’ hearts – the place where love resides between man and woman. - Richard Poe,  Guns and Communism

    It appears duToit was right, but Richard Poe tells why  the pussification of America is no accident in this essay.

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    November 12, 2003

    PoP, BanG, Pfft

    Nothing demonstrates the imotent Republican senate leadership (since actual impotent Bob Dole stepped down),  than does this, from NewsMax.
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    Stuff I missed



        John Hawkins was kind enough to invite me to submit choices for his recent "Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact On (My) Thinking" poll, and "History's Most Interesting Dinner Companions."  Since his deadlines are on Sunday, I often miss them, as I did with these.  However, I must admit that the latter, Dinner Companions, did not really excite me.  Dining with great minds like Aristotle would be a waste of both our times, although I would like to ask Jefferson if he, indeed, would have President Bush hanged as Gore Vidal evidently contends.  No, I would have more in common with the average Flavious six-pack, hanging around Pompeian whorehouses, or other such insignificant, but earthy schmucks.  The book deal is a different matter.  I'm looking over John's own selection of mind altering books, and we have these three  in common.
    • 1984
    • Animal Farm
    • Atlas Shrugged
    Additionally I would add
    • Comic books, for getting me in the habit of reading
    • Treasue Island, the first library book I read; it sold me on reading books for enjoyment
    • The Conscience of a Conservative
    • Several books by William F. Buckley, whose titles I forget.
    • The Source
    • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    • The Black Book of Communism
    • How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (And Found Inner Peace)
    • The Day Lincoln Was Shot
    • The Warren Report on the assassination of John Kennedy
    • The Peter Principle
    • Strange Bedfellows,


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    The Bra Wars: continued

        A Japanese (relative of Ron Popeil, no doubt) lingerie maker has developed the 'Anti-Smoking Bra' (shown) which emits a mysterious fragrance designed to kill the desire to smoke.  In a similar vein, an American inventor has produced a bra with a built-in holster, making it easier to get rid of annoying people who bitched about your smoking in the first place. (Roll for exclusive picture not even available on the inventor's site.)

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    Scrapplebeauty

    DNC Slams Soros: 'Special Interest Fat Cat'

    (2003-11-11) -- The Democrat National Committee (DNC) today condemned billionaire George Soros as a "special interest fat cat" who's dodging campaign finance laws and buying influence by contributing $15.5 million to activist groups trying to oust George Bush from the White House.

    "He's an affront to everything Democrats stand for," said DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe. "The McCain-Feingold law was passed to protect Americans from his brand of soft-money influence. But since he can't give millions to the DNC, he's donating huge sums to MoveOn.org and other liberal activists organizations. That's just not right, and if we could do anything to stop Mr. Soros from using this loophole, we surely would."

    An outspoken Bush critic, Mr. Soros, 74, became a multi-billionaire by speculating on international currencies. He has publicly called for "regime change" in the White House, and believes laissez-faire economic theory no longer works since no global shared-values exist as a check against human greed and fallibility.

    Scrappleface
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    Senate Pajama Party



    Assorted Republican senators, led by Majority Leader Bill Frist, just talked up tonight's Senate Pajama Party.  Since the attempt to break the Donk filibuster on judicial nominees is advertised as lasting just "thirty hours," and not "until the bastards pee their pants, and begin having the  DT's," I don't expect much by way of progress.  But that's not news to any of you.  This is what I found .... interesting.  Frist explained that he first assembled a task force to decide what to do (oh, what can we do) about these filthy bastards.  The task force, after much reflection, recommended this course of action.  WTF?  Everyone I know has been hollering about this remedy, without the parenthetical limitation, at the top of  their lungs for months.  Idiots. 
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    Stop me before I do this again ...

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    Fun with the Clintons

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    Fun mit Facts



         New York Times Washington Post
    Congress % Lib % Con % Lib % Con
    102nd 3.87 9.03 2.04 6.00
    103rd 3.18 10.80 2.48 7.31
    104th 3.08 8.03 1.90 5.40
    105th 5.54 11.95 2.13 6.28
    106th 3.71 12.73 2.28 5.52
    107th 4.43 6.67 3.68 7.21

        David Brady and Jonathan Ma, senior fellows at the Hoover Institution,   studied the instances of liberals in congress being named "liberal," and conservatives, "conservative" Results from the WaPost and New York Times  are capsulized in the table shown.  As you see, conservatives are labled about 3 times more than liberals.  But, that's not the whole story.
    "While references to liberal senators in the Times evoke a brave defense of the liberal platform (key words: icon and stalwart), the newspaper portrays conservatives as cantankerous lawmakers seeking to push their agenda down America's throat. Descriptions of conservative senators include "unyielding," "hard-line" and "firebrand." A taste of Times quotes on conservatives during the period of 1990-2000: Sen. Nickles is "a fierce conservative" and "a rock-ribbed conservative"; Sen. Helms is "perhaps the most tenacious and quarrelsome conservative in the Senate, and with his "right-wing isolationist ideology" he is the "best-known mischief maker." Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona is "a Republican hard-liner"; Sen. Robert C. Smith is "a granite-hard Republican conservative"; Sen. Gramm takes "aggressively conservative stands" and has "touched on many red-meat conservative topics," as "the highly partisan conservative Texan"; Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas is "hard-core conservative," "considerably more conservative . . . less pragmatic," "hard-line conservative . . . one of Newt Gingrich's foot soldiers," and "a hard-charging conservative"; Sen. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas is "a staunch conservative"; and Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho is "an arch-conservative."."
        Ditto those results forother papers -- USA Today, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Los Angeles Times .  "The major exception is The Wall Street Journal and even here the labeling of conservatives to liberals is a little less than 2 to 1. "  WSJ

    As an aside,   no paper had any appreciable instance of using "filthy liberals," "filthy, lying donks," or "ratbastardcommies," when describing liberals.  Or, make that, no instance was reported.

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    PT-SOD

    The Country Store has our Poster/T-Shirt of the day.

    Dooby dooby do me


        Republican Reps. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and Sue Myrick of North Carolina fired off an angry letter to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority after reading ads — placed free, it turns out — in the Washington public transit system:
    "Enjoy Better Sex: Legalize and Tax Marijuana!"
        Ironically, a recent study finds that smoking pot decreases the sex drive. - John McCaslin
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    Ahem ...

        Let me grab an asshat at random.  Oh, here's one.  Jules Witcover says, in this morning's Baltimore Sun, that Bush comparing  his" pre-emptive war to the fights against the Kaiser in World War I, against Hitler and Hirohito in World War II, and against the Soviet Union and communism in the Cold War, ... [is certainly]  a quantum leap from the simple justification on which he sold the Iraq invasion to the American people."

       Let's stop right there.  The Iraq war was not "sold" to the American people.  If anything, the American people were getting quite impatient with Bush for allowing pussies in his own party, leftist cranks in the media, and U.N. America haters delay what we saw as  necessary.  Carry on.
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    Anti-war demonstraters with Communist ties? I'm shoc ... no, I'm not.


        A chap in London, Michael Gove,  writes in the Times of London (Bushophobia can be bad for your conscience) that he'll be at upcoming London demonstrations against George Bush.  "It should be easy to spot me, " says Gove.  Why?  Because Mike will be wearing a T-shirt "with the American flag on it, above the simple legend 'These Colors Don’t Run'. And the little pin proclaiming “Bush-Cheney — Four More Years!”  And, he has three questions he would like to ask those protestors.
    1. I would like first to ask everyone at these rallies if they are happy attending events organised by apologists for tyranny. The Stop the War Coalition is chaired by a man called Andrew Murray, now communications officer for the rail union Aslef. Andrew, who used to work for the Soviet Novosti press agency, sits on the politburo of the Communist Party of Britain and wrote an article in the Morning Star a couple of years ago celebrating the 120th anniversary of Stalin’s birth. Working alongside him in the Coalition is another indefatigable protester with a soft spot for Uncle Joe, the former Labour MP George Galloway, who once claimed that the collapse of Soviet Communism was the saddest event of his life.
    2. Do you miss the fact that mass murderers no longer run Iraq? Is that why you are angry?
    3. How do you think this war you say that you want to stop actually started?

    Bushophobia can be bad for your conscience
    The three questions you should answer if you intend to demonstrate next week
    Michael Gove

    Sometimes you can never be more lonely than when you are in a crowd. And that will be me next week. In seven days’ time the National Stop the War Coalition will be rallying thousands of people to protest at President Bush’s visit to London. A big turn-out is expected next Wednesday for the alternative state procession with the Critical Mass bike riders and the Big Red Peace Bus. The day after there is a mass anti-Bush demonstration in Trafalgar Square, with tens of thousands expected to show. And as someone who believes in standing up and being counted, I will be there. Even among the crowds it should be easy to spot me. I know there will be a lot of other guys in T-shirts and badges — but perhaps not those I am planning to wear: the T-shirt with the American flag on it, above the simple legend “These Colors Don’t Run”. And the little pin proclaiming “Bush-Cheney — Four More Years!” It will be interesting to see what the crowd make of my presence. According to Libby Purves, they are peaceable souls who wish only to uphold the traditional Anglo-Saxon right of free assembly. So I expect there will be a chance to engage in constructive dialogue. Because I would like to ask everyone opposed to President Bush’s visit a few questions.

    I would like first to ask everyone at these rallies if they are happy attending events organised by apologists for tyranny. The Stop the War Coalition is chaired by a man called Andrew Murray, now communications officer for the rail union Aslef. Andrew, who used to work for the Soviet Novosti press agency, sits on the politburo of the Communist Party of Britain and wrote an article in the Morning Star a couple of years ago celebrating the 120th anniversary of Stalin’s birth. Working alongside him in the Coalition is another indefatigable protester with a soft spot for Uncle Joe, the former Labour MP George Galloway, who once claimed that the collapse of Soviet Communism was the saddest event of his life.

    Now any of us are entitled to the odd bit of nostalgia for the fallen heroes of our youth. I personally have a soft spot for Ally McLeod, the Scotland manager who crashed and burnt in the 1978 World Cup. But controversial figure from the past though Ally is, he did not organise the murder of 30 million people. Stalin did, and people who miss him are not just nostalgics for adolescent dreams: they are grown-ups getting misty-eyed about genocide.

    The guys organising next week’s anti-Bush rally are not really against war, they just think it is a pity that the free world won the Cold War. And anyone clambering aboard their Big Red Peace Bus is a fellow traveller with fans of totalitarianism.

    Talking of which, the next question I would like to ask anyone standing next to me next Thursday is: do you miss the fact that mass murderers no longer run Iraq? Is that why you are angry? Andy, George and the rest of the crew organising this rally are admirably clear on this point. They want Western troops out of Iraq now, leaving the place free for Saddam’s loyalists and Islamic fundamentalists to build their own new hells. They opposed the removal of Saddam’s torture state, oppose the use of Western power to help to build the foundations of a free Iraq and want to see the West retreat in the face of terrorist action.

    If George Bush were to stop his war now, as Andy, George and all their friends want, the consequences would be unthinkable. Iraq would be left, as it was tragically before in 1991, to the tender mercies of gangsters and fanatics. The hope of an alternative path for the Arab Middle East, towards modernity, freedom and prosperity, would crumble. The men who planned 9/11, and have unleashed suicide bombers on Tel Aviv and Riyadh, would be emboldened by a lack of Western resolution and encouraged to extend their campaigns. To our doorsteps.

    I am sure that most of those tempted to rally next week want to do something to halt terror, indeed anything to stop the waste of innocent lives. Which prompts the third, and crucial, question. How do you think this war you say that you want to stop actually started?

    The history of the past 80 years teaches us that it is when democracies are weak and slow to assert themselves that conflicts begin and innocents die. The march of the dictators in the 1930s was facilitated by the strength of the disarmament and isolationist lobbies in Britain, France and America. The mass slaughter and “ethnic cleansing” of Milosevic gathered pace in the 1990s because the European Union prevaricated in the face of provocation. In that same decade the forces of terror in the Middle East were emboldened.

    In Iraq the withering support for sanctions, especially among European nations, encouraged its dictator in defiance. In Palestine the willingness of idealistic Israelis to gamble security for peace only strengthened the hand of Islamic hardliners. Among the leaders of al-Qaeda the reluctance of America to meet outrages in Somalia, Yemen or Kenya with proper fortitude only encouraged escalation.

    It is immensely to President Bush’s credit that he recognises weakness is more provocative than strength to those who live outside democracy’s rules. We are safer in Britain today than we were 27 months ago, thanks to him.

    Of course Bush has made mistakes, on issues from global warming to steel tariffs. There may well be room to criticise much in his record. But given the people who want to occupy that space next week, it is not a place I want to go. I respect freedom too much to enjoy seeing it abused by those whose first instinct is to insult anyone who actually bothers to fight for it.

    And I admire what America has done for liberty, throughout its history, too much to want to join those people who are now biting the hand that freed them.

    Stop Bush? Not in my name.

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    Fun with hemorrhoid-nibbling, fuck-headed wartheads

    Item:  Terrorists in Iraq issue a press release giving details of a coming mortar attack on coalition forces.  Well, almost. .
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    November 11, 2003

    Yada Yada Yada

         I see the New York Times still manages to write entire pieces on sleazer Anthony Pellicano, this one naming his clients, without mentioning you know who?.  The United States Senate ought to investigate the Pellicano deal, if for no other reason than to entertain a C-Span audience with Sen. Clinton brazening her way out of the embarrassment.  Or, maybe she would do the same as Sen. Teddy did, as he sat in judgment of Clarence Thomas?  Or Chris Dodd did, during the China-gate hearings?  By disappearing under a chair?.?  Uh-uh.  Her style would have her attack Pellicano for hiring himself out to Bill's political enemies ... .  Betcha. 
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    Good Stuff

    CLICK HERE FOR FUN

        I got a late start today,  Memorial Day.  It used to be called "Armistice Day," or even "Poppy Day" (I can't account for the Nov 15th date on this poster).  Anyway, I can't say this is the best thing to be found on the web today, but it's the best thing I've gotten to.  The Baron has a bit of Frank Capra in him, eh wot? 
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    Fun mit Parrots

    CLICK HERE FOR FUN

    This is for Bev ...
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    Tech Wars



    "Nancy V" wrote and complained:
      "We Bryn Mawr girls are miles ahead of the Bitch's when it comes to cheezy home-made bras ..."
    But, it's so ... declasse, Nancy.  Bitter's is, well    RED GREEN .... earthy.
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    Notice



      I had a "surgical procedure" this morning, of a delicate nature (I'm not saying it was for a "Ron Albertson" problem," but I'm not saying it wasn't, either).  I didn't even tell the kids, because I didn't want them driving my 'vette. Anyway, I still have an anesthesia hangover that's far worse than anything Mr. Beam ever gave me. Plus, I think I confessed to being Dan Rather's "Kenneth" while I was under, because the police are standing over my gurney.   Please check El Bloggo's Grande for fun.  Thank you. - Mgt.
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    November 10, 2003

    kewl

    Some guy figured out Ted Kennedy's office phone number spells 202-A-BIG-LIE. Should be easy to remember.
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    26 Dems


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    Just Stop it, dammit



    Here's Ralph Nader in Nader Blasts Democrats As 'Whiners'

    "Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader called Democrats "chronic whiners" for continuing to accuse him of spoiling the 2000 presidential election for Al Gore)."

    Okay, I'm thinking,  this is maybe the first honestly felt thing I've ever heard this reiver say.  But, wait...

    "They should realize that the retrospect on Florida concluded Gore won Florida," the consumer activist told the Wisconsin State Journal on Saturday. "It was stolen from the Democrats. And they should concentrate on the thieves and the blunderers in Florida, not on the Green Party."

    "A media-sponsored review of more than 175,000 disputed ballots found that Gore would have won by a small margin if there had been a complete statewide recount. President Bush  won Florida, and thus the White House, by 537 votes out of more than 6 million cast."

    What media sponsored review is he referring to?  This one, by the New York Times?
    Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote

    November 12, 2001
    New York Times
    By FORD FESSENDEN and JOHN M. BRODER

    .... or, maybe this Washington Post effort. 
    Florida Recounts Would Have Favored Bush
    But Study FindsStatewide Tally of All Uncounted Ballots

     
    By Dan Keating and Dan Balz
    Washington Post Staff Writers
    Monday, November 12, 2001; Page A01
         I can go on and on.  The Miami Herald/USA Today team hailed a  Bush victory by 1,665 votes, but I think the Chicago Tribune correctly nailed the absurdity of the whole process by stating that it was probably "impossible to design a study that would determine who should have won the Florida balloting. That is particularly true given the degree to which the Florida election was tainted: Thousands of felons voted, people not registered were allowed to vote, others voted twice and even the dead voted in small numbers. Other voters were erroneously turned away from the polls."

    The World Socialist Web sides with Nader.  They found conspiracy everywhere:

    New York Times, Washington Post suppress
    media recount of Florida vote
    By Barry Grey
    World Socialist Web
    25 September 2001

        Then there's the legal scholars., "Arguably the most accomplished legal scholar of the past half century, ...  dissects some of the inaccuracies, distortions, and surprisingly shallow understandings of the legal and factual raw material displayed by many other strident critics of Bush vs. Gore."--Stuart Taylor, National Journal.  Taylor refers to what many consider to be the definitive study on the recount, Judge Richard Posner's Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts .  Here's a summation.

    "Simply stated, Posner's argument goes like this: Al Gore's legal actions precipitated an extraordinary struggle; the Florida Supreme Court committed serious errors in response to those actions; and the United States Supreme Court majority saved the day and stopped the slide into political chaos with a necessary, if admittedly less-than-perfect decision." - ibid.

         While some of the papers, like the WaPost, did some quibbling . "Gore might have won if .... ," followed by a tortured scenario, Nader is really cherry picking his unnamed "media-sponsored review."  He may be a conniving, self-serving liar, but that's red meat he's throwing to rabid dogs, and for that he deserves bad things to happen to him -- in this life, and/or next.  
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    Quick maw, we're mortgaging the house



    Are you a betting man  person?  Do you like sure things?  Then Judge Barksdale has has just the deal.
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    Beauty and some gawdawful beasts

    Laura Ingraham and the 'View' Idiots

    Radio talk show host (and ultra lovely) Laura Ingraham received a hostile reaction last week from the crew on ABC's daytime show, The View, to the premise of her new book, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America. When Ingraham argued "that the Democratic Party is not connecting with the people who are its logical constituents, from the South and from the Heartland," Barbara Walters shot back: "Excuse me, neither is the Republican Party, at this point, necessarily connecting." Joy Behar became upset by Ingraham making fun of Hollywood liberals: "Why do you have to make these generalizations about liberals?" Behar came to the defense of Barbra Streisand:
    "Why are you against Barbra Streisand? She's very, very patriotic." -
    These details, and more, at MRC.
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    The Humanity!

    OMG!  Think of the mischief THIS could cause with the male vote in this country. (Rollover Pic)

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    Today's 'Pillar of Salt" Award

    "Death," a sculpture by artists Jake and Dinos Chapman , sits in the Tate gallery in London. It's been nominated for the $34,000 Turner Prize, which will be announced on December 7.

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    Then sing 'Melancholy Baby' (NSFW Rollover)

    It appears that uncivility in Washington D.C. is spreading to the prairies.

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    Howie's on a roll

    Howie Dean gets support
    Recall that talks by Sen. Trent Lott to CCC helped end his reign as majority leader as Republicans ducked racism charges. [Via Inside Politics]
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    Stop press! Donk with a bad idea.

    Stupid Donk Ideas

    "Ms. DeLauro's bill may sound reasonable — who would argue that consumers shouldn't be informed about what they're eating?" - Junk science on the menu
        Gee, that's a tough one.  How about someone with an ounce of freaking sense -- since we all know what this is really all about , don't we?
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    It's all those years of Commie repression ...

    Big Hitskis from der East
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    Cow plop 101

    Good

    Bad

    Here is a list of banned words and stereotypes that are used as guidelines by writers, editors and illustrators while preparing textbooks and tests for students:

    *blind leading the blind: banned as handicapism
    *busybody: banned as sexist, demeaning to older women
    *courageous: banned as patronizing when referring to a person with disabilities
    *egghead: banned as offensive, replace with "intellectual"
    *fairy: banned because it suggests homosexuality, replace with "elf"
    *Founding Fathers: banned as sexist, replace with "the Founders" or "the Framers"
    *jungle: banned, replace with "rain forest"
    *mentally ill: banned as offensive, replace with "person with a mental or emotional disability"
    *one-man band: banned as sexist, replace with "one-person performance"
    *polo: banned as elitist
    *senile: banned as demeaning to older people
    *senior citizen: banned as demeaning to older people
    *snowman: banned, replace with "snow person"
    *tomboy: banned as sexist


    Here are some images that are to be avoided:
    *women as more nurturing than men
    *men as active problem solvers
    *men playing with sports or working with tools
    *girls as peaceful, emotional and warm
    *pioneer woman riding in covered wagon while man walks
    *African Americans who are baggage handlers
    *Native Americans with long hair, braids, headbands
    *Asian Americans as very intelligent, excellent scholars
    *Hispanics who are warm, expressive and emotional
    *older people who have a twinkle in their eyes

    Source: : Diane Ravitch, author of The Language Police, How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn

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    What about Earth Day?



    What the hell, we have Festivus and Kawanza, so why not?
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    Useful Idiot Caption-A-Rama


    Bloggers looking to score some protesting dickwad pics will find a plethora here, pithy comments too.
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    The sage of Pyongyang bestows his imprimatur

    The Carters in Oslo
    The Carters in Oslo

    "For more than two years, the group of Israelis and Palestinians, many of whom played key roles at earlier discussions under President Clinton at Camp David and later at Taba, Egypt, has held difficult, tedious negotiations [on a new peace plan]. Working without government support, both sides have made constructive concessions without contradicting the concepts of the Oslo accords of 1993, the Clinton proposals and the Quartet road map. -Jummy "Peace Prize" Carter

        All of Clinton's concepts left in tact?  Jimmy Carter calling the new plan "a real winner?"  Note to Tel Aviv and Washington, find these people -- and use nukes.

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    `Mansionization' tied to loss of open spaces



      The people all atwitter over SUV's see another, even greater, danger in HUV's (Houses, Uber Volume). 
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    November 09, 2003

    Sunday Fun



    Q. Why do Pakistani women have the red dot on the forehead?
    A. Because the husband smokes while they make love.

    A hunter walking through the jungle was surprised to find a pigmy standing beside a very large dead lion. Amazed, he asked, 'Did you kill that?'
    The pigmy answered, 'Yes.'
    The hunter then asked, 'How could a little guy like you kill a huge beast like that?'
    Said the pigmy, 'I killed it with my club.'
    The astonished hunter asked, 'How big is your club?'
    The pigmy replied, 'There's about 100 of us.'

    Q. When does a Jewish man stop masturbating?
    A. When his wife dies.

    A guy gets pulled over. He already is kinda ticked. The cop gets out and looks at the driver, studies him, and says, "Your eyes look bloodshot, Have you been drinking?"
    The guy replies, "Your eyes look glazed, have you been eating donuts?"

    Q. How do you recognize a gay Pakistani?
    A. He has a red dot on the back of the head.

    There's a double standard, even today. A man can sleep around and sleep around, and nobody asks any questions.
    A woman, you make nineteen or twenty mistakes, right away you're a whore.

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    Donks court the South

    Democarts Court the South
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    NewsMax -- Sheesh, and Fie

    Clark 'Jokes' Southerners Are 'Stupid'
    - NewsMax headline.

        You can read the NewsMax story here.  First, though, here is the entire Wesley Clark quote, in context,  as it appeared in the Daily News

    Q: And what is Clark's reaction to former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's pandering comment that that he, Dean, wants the votes of Southerners, i.e. "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks"?

    A: "Well, he shouldn't have said those things. I think all Americans - and this is a joke! - all Americans, even if they're from the South and 'stupid,' should be represented."

       The NewsMax piece leaves out the, "and this is a joke" qualifier, goes into a self righteous rant, then qualifies it later where it can easily be missed.  Why?  Chris Ruddy is a decent and ballsy journalist who doesn't need this kind of sophomoric crap on his site.  General Clark is a big enough fool that there's a plethora of real deals to choose from without resorting to trickstering.  That's what Al Franken does.  Sheesh, and Fie!

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    Week Past

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    Another enemy pillbox taken in the culture war

    "For years, Hillary Rodham Clinton has told people she was named for the first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. But as Esquire magazine recently pointed out, Sir Edmund did not climb Mount Everest until 1953, 6 years after Hillary Clinton was born. However, the First Lady does have a good explanation for the discrepancy: She loves to lie." -  Norm McDonald, SNL

          How many comedians have you EVER heard making fun of liberals, or liberal dogma?  Very damned few.  When he anchored SNL's Weekend Update, Norm McDonald plowed virgin ground and funned the Clintons, but that was about it (he was fired by NBC exec Don Ohlmeyer ). Well guess what?  Laura Vanderkam has discovered a budding Right-wing laugh riot
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    Illusions

    Bitter Bitch Bra

        For you non bloggers, the traffic counter Site Meter, that most of us use, identifies from whence people linked from.  Over the past few months I keep getting recurring "hits" from -
     http://www.thebitchgirls.us/archives/cat_boobs.html
     
        I look to see what reference enticed the lurker, but I never find any link back to this site.  What I do see is this spread of Bitter Bitch modeling her duct tape bra.  Today, finally, I did find that link to C&S, and am wondering how I missed it all this time?  It must be for the same reason this illusion works so well. 

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    Coming home to roost

    Saudi chickens coming home to roost

    Next stop - France
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    Oh crap; Martha Burk again

    Martha Burk Obsesses

    Can the New York Times be far behind?

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    Donk Think 101

    Sceen caps altered from RENO 911

    Item:  Michigan Gov. John Engler gets tough on crime in the 1990's,
    Item:  The rate of violent crime goes down; prison population rises
    Item:  Michigan elects a Democrat Governor, Jennifer Granholm
    Item:   Granholm feels  pinch of the Clinton recession, needs cash
    Item:  Each prisoner costs state $29,000
    Item:  All those prisoners are the result of Engler's "harsh policies ."
    Item:   Brainstorm

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    November 08, 2003

    Grapth of Tacth

    The Grapes of Tax

        Evil bankers, what kind dat want loans repayed, have long been a favorite "Progressive" Hollywood villain. The Grapes of Wrath, of course, has spawned many a commie mind set over the years.  Two movies in 1984 ( Places in the Heart and The River ) kicked off a string of Farm Aid television specials that begged money for farmers (the talent, mostly Country singers, were of a much higher class than those who joined Whoopi Goldberg in the 50 or so other begathons Hollywood dreamed up weekly, to focus on the plight of people hurt by Ronald Reagan).  Anyway, I apologize for taking the long road to my point, which is; will we be be seeing a spate of Hollywood films that address this crap?  Do ya think?


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    Is Britney losing weight?

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    War is Hell ...
    ... especially if you have to keep re-fighting it,

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    Sufferin' Suffragette Succotash

    A New York federal judge issued a ruling on November 6, 2003 blocking the government from enforcing the partial birth abortion ban act, that was signed by President Bush (news - web sites), against certain doctors. Bush is shown at the signing with (L-R) Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

        In case her party wasn't being viewed as being looney enough, Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi complained Friday that images of President Bush signing abortion legislation were disturbing.  Why is that Nancy?
    "Both pictures I found disconcerting, one because it's a group of men celebrating depriving women of a medical procedure that could save their health and their lives, and the other because of the celebratory nature of it really was, I thought, a ... slap in the face to women across America."  - SFCHRON
    Ms. Pelosi was herself a victim of a partial-partial birth abortion.  Her mother's quack only managed to suck half her brains out. 


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    Thanks, I needed that

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    Give me sweet release, please

    • ITEM: George W. Bush is playing the "race card, the ethnicity card, the gender card [and] the religious card," says NAACP chairman Julian Bond,
    • ITEM A business owner who left an ashtray sitting out in his shop has been fined $6,000 by New York City's health inspector, who was enforcing the city's tough, new anti-smoking law.

    Brooklyn video-store owner Marty Arno also was charged with not having "No Smoking" signs and not posting his company's official nonsmoking policy.

    "Ashtrays are outlawed," according to Health Department spokesman Andrew Tucker (WND, YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK)

    • ITEM Montgomery County shares responsibilty with Baltimore City and Prince George County for imposing a Liberal Iron Curtain on Maryland.  The WaPost reports this morning that in order to raise the county's SAT scores, County Superintendent Jerry D. Weast  has proposed a novel approach;  "exclude the kids who couldn't help us."  This, of course, is what Liberals claim "school choice" does to the education system.  Another case of the devil knowing himself all too well, eh wot?
        Finally, the lone piece of good news  this morning comes from New Hampshire.  "If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery?"  No, it's entertainment rules the state Supreme Court (or something like that).

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    November 07, 2003

    Another Clinton connection ...

    U.S. Army Spc. Wesley Carlile looks at a line of 15 rifles and helmets commemorating the 15 soldiers killed Sunday when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down in Fallujah. (AP /Pier Paolo Cito) 



    Did you read this passage in the WSJ's editorial, 'Flagrantly Dishonest'that's available on Opinion Journal
    'Mr. Rockefeller refuses to denounce the memo, which he says was unauthorized and written by staffers. If that's the case, at the very least some heads ought to roll. A good place to start would be minority staff director Christopher Mellon, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton Administration.
       Hillary Clinton, of course, has been in the vanguard of Democrats who have been critical of every step the administration has taken since 9-11.  This certainly is not the first time that words "treason" cojoined with "Clinton" have been uttered on Capitol Hill.   These are real bad people we're dealing with.

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    A good deal



        Until Spoonsy gave me the gift that keeps on giving yesterday, a heads-up that resulted in a nod by InstaPundit,  blowback from this reference  I made to a The Greatest Jeneration deal on Jessica Lynch was my previous all time hit getter.  So, these are for you Chris.
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    Top Ten Things that Sound Dirty in GOLF but aren't:




     10. Nuts...my shaft is bent

    9. After 18 holes I can barely walk

    8. You really whacked the hell out of that sucker

    7. Look at the size of his putter

    6. Keep your head down and spread your legs a bit more

    5. Mind if I join your threesome?

    4. Stand with your back turned and drop it

    3. My hands are so sweaty I can't get a good grip

    2. Nice stroke, but your follow through has a lot to be desired

    1. Hold up...I need to wash my balls first
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    A Great Actor

    There was once a great actor who could no longer remember his lines. After many years he finds a theater where they are prepared to give him a chance to shine again.

    The director says, "This is the most important part, and it has only one line.

    You walk on to the stage at the opening carrying a rose. You hold the rose to your nose with just one finger and thumb, sniff the rose deeply and then say the line 'Ah, the sweet aroma of my mistress.'"

    The actor is thrilled.
    All day long before the play he's practicing his line over and over again. Finally, the time came.

    The curtain went up, the actor walked onto the stage, and with great passion delivered the line, "Ah, the sweet aroma of my mistress." The audience erupted, screaming with laughter.

    The director yelled at the actor, "You fool! You have ruined me!"

    The actor was bewildered, "What happened, did I forget my line?"

    "No!" screamed the director. "You forgot the rose."
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    Tarred for Life



    In the latest issue of the Nation, Molly Ivins writes that she was attending a meeting last year of the Texas Civil Liberties Union board, which was discussing "vicious hate crimes against gays in both Dallas and Houston."
        "I asked the board member from Midland if they'd been having any trouble with gay-bashing out there," Miss Ivins writes.
        The Midland board member replied that "there's not a gay in Midland who would come out of the closet for fear people would think they're a Democrat."
    - Greg Pierce
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    Red States Care:

         In news sure to depress those for whom Republican stinginess and antipathy for the less fortunate is an article of faith, the Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy has just released its Generosity Index 2003, which ranks states not just by how much their residents give per capita but also by how much they give relative to what they earn. As OpinionJournal.com reader Gabriel Openshaw pointed out to us, the resulting index shows that the top 20 states all went for George W. Bush in the 2000 election -- while 15 of the 20 least generous went for Al Gore. Maybe, he suggests, the difference is that those in red states are more generous with their own money while those in blue states are more likely to be generous with other people's money. -WSJ
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    AFT

    Sen. Leahy (D VT) pleads that he has to pee, while Republican Senator Rick Santorum (right) displays a list of judicial nominees against whom Democrats have filibustered to prevent confirmation.  "You'll be pissing blood before this is over," Santorum yelled to wild applause from the gallery. (Photo Al-Jazeera)

    Republicans announced that they will [finally] force Democrats to defend their filibusters against Mr. Pryor and two other judicial nominees in an all-night 30-hour straight debate next week. - WaTimes
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    Does Sarandon love America after all?



     
        Oh my, for perhaps the first time in her adult  life actress Susan Sarandon is siding with America against its enemies, if this item from the Daily News is accurate:

    Loudly liberal star Susan Sarandon loves Sen. Hillary Clinton, right?

    Wrong! "Hate her!" the actress exclaims. "The only thing she's going to be remembered for is standing by her man, and that is really sad.

    She had a shot, and she really blew it. … She turned out to be just another politician, which was really disappointing. I also think she lost a lot of support. I know a lot of people who write very large checks who have told her, 'That's it for us, don't come back, '" Sarandon says in the new issue of Index magazine.

    Sen. Clinton's office did not have an immediate reaction yesterday. But don't expect her to be shelling out 10 bucks for a Sarandon movie any time soon."

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    McDonald's goes slumming



        Joan Kroc bequeathed $200 million dollars of her inherited McDonald's wealth to the Democrat Party  ...  er, National Proletariat Radio (NPR) it was revealed yesterday.  This is great news, if we follow this advice from the The Union Leader.
    "Using Kroc’s money to set the taxpayers free would be the most honorable use of NPR’s new windfall. NPR probably will blow it all on additional leftist programming while continuing to insist that it can’t survive without a federal subsidy."
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    November 06, 2003

    Get a grip ...

    The delusions of Bill Clinton, Part cviii
    Then someone reminded him that he...
    A
    ... is no longer the president
    B
    ... had his chance, but cowered in the White House while Jimmy Carter named himself  Sec/State and fucked things up irrevocably.
    C
    ...is a psycopath
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    "Liberal Cocoon" spawns dumb bunnies

    "I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him." - The late film critic Pauline Kael’s reaction to Richard Nixon’s landslide victory over George McGovern

    I don’t know anyone who voted for Reagan. And I don't know anybody who knows anybody who voted for Reagan!” - Credited to various stunned Liberals in 1980,including a Yale law professor, and a matron writing a letter to a newspaper editor in Deleware.

            MRC's Brent Baker was moved to opine, "New York Times readers must have been surprised to learn that the Republican gubernatorial candidates had won in Kentucky and Mississippi since ... over the summer they ran stories which clearly suggested the Democrats would win those contests.

        " Slate journalist Mickey Kaus has developed an explanation for why Democrats tend to disappoint on Election Day -- "liberal cocooning." Kaus explains: "The point is that reporters and editors at papers like the Times (either one!) are exquisitely sensitive to any sign that Democrats might win, but don't cultivate equivalent sensitivity when it comes to discerning signs Republicans might win. (Who wants to read that?) The result, in recent years, is the Liberal Cocoon, in which Democratic partisans are kept happy and hopeful until they are slaughtered every other November." Kaus' subject was an article in the L.A. Times, but his theory applies equally well to the paper's New York namesake." - Thanks to Clay Waters at TIMES WATCH   

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    Beauty

    Sean Delonas for Thursday, November 6, 2003
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    Brian the Movie Guy



    Hear our own Brian the Movie Guy pan The Human Stain, and Brother Bear

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    HATE RUSH.COM

    Discrimination is still a problem for Cho ... She mentions one incident in a comedy club green room, where a picture of her was defaced (the culprit scrawled the word "fat" on it, among other things.) The club was apologetic, but didn't remove the picture. - Excerpt from the sensitive Margaret Cho's website.
    "I cannot stop picturing Rush as one of the Trainspotting crew, or selling his a** for a hit. He would have to suck so much d**k to satisfy that jones ... "  - Excerpt from the sensitive Margaret Cho's Blog

    "[T]here is plenty to criticize Rush about over this matter. He is a moral leader in America who has on occasion sharply criticized drug users. His inability to treat his illness is, arguably, a moral failing. In the greater scheme of things, one inappropriate joke is hardly the end of the world.

    "That was until I ventured into the left-wing portion of the blogosphere." - Blogger David Hogberg  writing for the American Spectator:
    Follow David on his journey into the bowels of Donkdom, and other filthy places.

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    Fun with nincompoops

    CBS Evening News Moved to Showtime

    (2003-11-04) -- Just hours after deciding to sell the planned CBS miniseries 'The Reagans' to the Showtime cable movie channel, network chief Les Moonves announced that the 'CBS Evening News with Dan Rather' would also move to Showtime starting in December.

    "It just doesn't work," Moonves told staffers. "Listen, we are not afraid of controversy, we'd go out there if it came in at 50-50, pro and con, but it simply isn't working. It's biased."

    According to an unnamed CBS insider, "He made up his own mind after seeing it. He's made a brave, decisive move."

    Posted by Scott Ott  (Scrappleface)
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    Letterman's "Top Ten Inaccuracies In The CBS Miniseries 'The Reagans' "

    10. Not enough steamy sex between President and White House interns

    9. It was about brother and sister accountants Carl and Linda Reagan of Syosset, New York

    8. CBS' transparent attempt at self-promotion by having Bob Barker play Gorbachev

    7. All that Matrix-style kung-fu

    6. James Brolin kept breaking character to remind everyone to get an annual transmission checkup at Aamco

    5. Wasn't "Reagany" enough

    4. Yeah right, like America could really have a dumb President

    3. Ron and Nancy's long debate over whether Letterman's too old to have a kid

    2. Pretty sure the President didn't speak in that Snoop Dogg "Izzle" language

    1. Nancy was never a Hooters girl

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    And she was such a sweet girl in nursery school

    Gee, why ain't I surprised over this?

    November 6, 2003 -- THE parents of Paris Hilton - reeling from the news that their eldest daughter made an amateur porn tape - are threatening legal action against anyone who helps make the tape public. "The Hilton family is greatly saddened at how low human beings will stoop to exploit their daughter Paris, who is sweet-natured, for their own self-promotion as well as profit motives," a statement released last night said. "Paris is working very hard on her career. The release of a private tape between a younger girl and her older boyfriend is more than upsetting . . . Anyone in any way involved in this video is guilty of criminal activity, and will be . . . vigorously prosecuted." Paris' co-star, Rick Solomon, the husband of Shannen Doherty, is being blamed for leaking the steamy video. Hilton lawyers looked into whether Paris was "underage" at the time, but she was 19 when the tape was made three years ago. Paris, meanwhile, caused major damage to the hotel where she and her latest fling, "Australian Idol" loser Rob Mills, have been staying, according to the Sydney Sun Herald. Later, at a Melbourne nightclub, Hilton blotted her lipstick with a paper towel, gave it to a stranger and said, "Here, keep this. You might make a fortune with it one day."

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    Fun with Barbara Bush

        Erstwhile First Lady Barbara Bush has been  making media rounds this week, promoting  her new book, "Reflections: Life After the White House."  First, this exchange on Sean Hannity's show yesterday:

    HANNITY; Well, and even your son. The worst that he ever said about the Clintons was "We're going to restore honor and dignity to the White House." But yet Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton are out there almost daily as monitors of almost every single decision that your son is making.

    MRS. BUSH: Well.

    HANNITY: What do you make of that?

    MRS. BUSH: I can't say. We took a vow that we would not speak badly. But that's just - that's just too bad. And it's, well ...

    HANNITY: Look, I don't want to push you in a direction you don't want to go. I'm not - I'm not - we're just glad you're here with us.

    MRS. BUSH: Well, it is - I appreciate you're saying what a lot of people think

        On Tuesday she appeared with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.  The real pearl came from guest Abby Julo, however.  If you haven't seen this precious little 3 year old perform, you've missed quite an experience.  She is unstumpable when asked questions about politics, or political geography, and has appeared on every television show from Oprah to Letterman.  Anyway, she followed Barbara Bush, and at some point Leno, thinking he could trip her up, asked if she could quote something Mrs.Bush had said. She (correctly) responded:

    ABBY:  Yes, I have something.  "I married the first boy that I kissed.  When I tell my children that they want to puke."

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    Raped


        The revelation by Jessica Lynch that she was repeatedly raped by her Iraqi captors is not surprising.  After Desert Storm Army Col. (then Major) Rhonda Cornum, a flight surgeon captured by Saddam's boys, revealed she too had suffered “sexual indecencies.”  Will the perceived certainty of this treatment of captured female combatants cause their future male counterparts to alter behavior in battle, to their own, and possibly the nation's, detriment?  I think so. It's time to finally  de-Schroedeize our military. I'm also happy to see that Zell Miller agrees with me that a draft is necessary.
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    Au contraire MF

    CLICK FOR J FARLEY
    Jonathan Farley - American prick
    (But, that's another story entirely).

    Last night on Brit Hume's show Morton Kondrake made this statement that pretty much went unchallenged.
    "People in the South who display the Confederate flag are saying 'I hate blacks.'"
        Some are, but if I decided to put a Confederate battle flag decal on my car, it would be in protest of what author and historian Shelbey Foote called a violation of a "great compromise;" .e.g. - Southerners admitting freely that it's probably best that the Union wasn't divided, and the North admitting rather freely that the South fought bravely for a cause in which it believed.    That blacks "don't celebrate their past the same way the Jews do about bondage in Egypt and say, 'We came out of it. We conquered it,'" is just another example of what we talked about below, Democrats using destructive politics to achieve a political end. It is they who perpetuate hatreds that would otherwise have dissipated.   Carry on.
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    Washing their hands of "unsavory" news




        Had I not anticipated this result, I would not have made the effort. Still, it's further proof that the national print media have evolved into ideological rags on the Tass model.  Certainly the most incendiary political story to break yesterday was the revelation of the Jay Rockefeller memo outlining how to use the Senate Intelligence Committee for partisan political purposes, and Democratic Senator Zell Miller calling it treasonous.  So, how did the nation's largest newspapers cover the story?  Only the WaPost's coverage was found by following news links available on its website.  Searches were required to find coverage in the NYT, and LAT.
    The Washington Post calls it a "partisan squabble" on page A-27 (Politicized Memo Incites Row )

    The New York Times buried the story in its "Intelligence Report" (Republican and Democratic Panel Leaders Take Feud to the Senate Floor ) and seemed to focus on how patriotic Donks, finding themselves in the minority, had little choice.
    "The majority has left the Senate minority with two choices." Senator Rockefeller said on the Senate floor. "Either abandon what we believe is a fundamental obligation of this body to the American people or reluctantly part ways and use our rights as a minority to get that job done on our own."
    The LA TIMES (so far today) has nada on its website.  Yesterday's coverage (Democrats' Iraq Inquiry Plan Is Leaked ) called it "A simmering political struggle behind the Senate inquiry into prewar intelligence."   The TIMES coverage does make this concession; "The tone of the memo could be embarrassing to Democrats and provides new ammunition for Republican complaints that Democrats are seeking to use the inquiry for political gain."

    The Atlanta Journal Constipation - ZIP.  You would think, given the fact of the state's Democrat Senator calling the memo "Treason's first cousin," that Georgia's largest paper would have something to say. It doesn't.
    To add a final perspective, pretend that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe had called her party a pack of treasonous dogs. Are we talking special editions of these same newspapers? You betchum.
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    November 05, 2003

    I want this data on my permanent blog record



    SHOCKING POLL: A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS CANNOT NAME A SINGLE DEPARTMENT IN THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET.

    For immediate release
    Tuesday, November 4, 2003
    Contact: Kellyanne Conway
    (202) 667-6557


    Washington, DC – Most Americans are unable to identify even a single department in the United States Cabinet, according to a recent national poll of 800 adults.  Specifically, the survey found that a majority (58%) could not provide any department names whatsoever; 41% could. Only 4% of those surveyed specified at least five of the 19 executive-level departments, a figure comparable to the poll’s overall margin of error (+/-3.5%).  

    The same firm that last year revealed an eye-popping 64% of Americans could not name any of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, has now uncovered a similar lack of knowledge with respect to the Executive Branch of federal government.

    “These poll numbers would make any high school civics teacher cringe,”  says Kellyanne Conway, President and CEO of the polling company, inc., in Washington, DC, the firm that conducted the survey.  “The differing levels of knowledge according to gender, race and age are astonishing,” she continued. “An incredible 70% of 18-34 year olds failed to specify a single agency or department, and while a majority of men (52%) could name at least one, less than one-third of women (32%) could do the same.”

                                              Total          Men         Women

    Dept of Defense                     23%            29%          19%
    Dept of Treasury                    14%            16%          12%
    Dept of State                          13%            16%          10%
    Dept of Homeland Security      12%            15%          8%
    Dept of Interior                      11%            15%          8%

    No respondent named all nineteen correctly and only 1% were able to name at least 11 departments within the President’s Cabinet.  

    Hispanics (79%), African Americans (75%), 18-34 year olds (70%), women (68%), and Pacific coast residents are among the groups most likely to say “I don’t know” when asked to name at least one department within the current United States Cabinet.  


    QUESTION
    Currently, the Federal Government includes executive level departments that advise the President.  The heads of these departments are collectively known as the Cabinet.  Could you please name as many departments as you can that are part of the current United States Cabinet?  (Note: This question was open-ended and multiple responses were accepted, meaning, all respondents were invited to name as few or as many departments as they could.  If a respondent provided the specific name of a cabinet secretary or administrator, e.g., “Colin Powell,” they were credited with a correct response.

  • 58% DO NOT KNOW

  • 23% DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
  • 14% DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
  • 13% DEPARTMENT OF STATE
  • 12% DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
  • 11% DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
  • 8% DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
  • 8% DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
  • 6% DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
  • 6% DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
  • 6% DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
  • 6% DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  • 4% DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
  • 3% DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
  • 2% THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
  • 2% DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
  • 1% DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
  • 1% UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
  • 1% OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
  • * OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
  • 1% OTHER

    the polling company™, inc/ WomanTrend is a full-service public opinion research firm in Washington DC and New York.  The margin of error for the entire survey is calculated at +3.5%.  Full survey results for both installments of the “Shocking Poll” are available on the web at www.pollingcompany.com.  The first Shocking Poll found more than twice the number of Americans could cite the number and names of the Rice Krispies Characters than the United States Supreme Court Justices.

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    "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry

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    Ho dat cotton Joe


    Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman  sings "Swanee," in black face, in an attempt to court the Southern vote.  Sen. Zell Miller later cried in disgust, " That's just what I'm talking about."

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    Has Dean conceded African American vote to Bush?

    Democratic presidential frontrunner Howard Dean roughs up the Rev. Al Sharpton during last night's debate in Boston.  "Listen you Alabama porch monkey, if you ever question me again I'll whip your black ass," Dean was reported to have yelled.  (Or something like that even if he denies it and says he was just asking directions to the Kwicky-Mart). (Photo Al Jazeera)
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    Merrily asks, "Which turkey is fake?"

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    Capone got results with a baseball bat ...



        I don't really have time to find the story behind this picture, but it appears that members of the House of Commons are finally trying to club some sense into Canadian Prime Minister Jean "the weasel" Chretien.  
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    Lunchtime Fun

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    Bill Clinton ...

    ... CALL YOUR OFFICE, STAT!

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    Bad People

    Filthy Fucking Liberals at work

        First, since I am offended by the inappropriate use of FFL when I come across it on other blogs, I feel it's only appropriate that I warn you that this is not  an inappropriate time.

         I'm sure that Democrats would be the first to agree that polarizing a nation at war,  for selfish political gain,  is despicable ...  if the White House happens to occupied by a Democrat at the time.  Having already labeled the Democrat party a group of FFCS , there is little more that I can muster in the way of pejorative phrases ... (well maybe "pole-smoking, donkey-humping, jock strap-sniffing, dick-sucking, pimple-chewing, butt-brained cockweasels" comes close), but if there is one, Donks deserve it for this.  Still, I don't know what people expected from this gaggle of filthy asshats, considering they telegraphed their intentions almost a year ago.  To quote South Park creator Matt Stone, 'IRFHL' !  Is there anyone who doesn't?

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    Hey, no fair ...


         Here's another example of why the Al Frankens of the world say Fox News is biased.  Life was so much easier when lies, and the liars who told them went unchallenged.  Consider these, from the Humester ...

    Off The Mark

    David Kay, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq, has sent a letter to The Washington Post calling last week's story headlined "Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat" -- "wildly off the mark." Kay says much of The Post's analysis comes from an Australian army commander who, The Post says to the contrary, is not involved in Kay's hunt for weapons of mass destruction nor does he have any expertise in nuclear weapons.

    The Post published Kay's letter, and alongside it is one from that Australian General who says he did not give The Post -- "views on Iraq's nuclear program or the status of investigations" conducted by Kay.

    Editorial Additions

    When first reporting the $13 billion in international aid to help rebuild Iraq, pledged at last month's conference in Madrid, The New York Times in a dispatch on its Web site then described the aid as -- "for the reconstruction of devastated infrastructure systems in Iraq that provide water, power, health care and other services."

    But the same story, printed in the next day's paper, described the aid as -- "for reconstruction of water, power, health care and other systems devastated by the American invasion six months ago."

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    CBS's problems are bigger than "Reagan."




         John Fund examines the political  machinations of CBS President and CEO Les Moonves in the wake of  his "Mommie Dearest Manipulates President Fuddy Duddy" mini series.  Here's a few out-takes.
    •     Lou Cannon, Mr. Reagan's most prolific biographer, said the film's allegation that Mr. Reagan supplied names to the Hollywood blacklist is "really wrong." The House Committee on Un-American Activities "was very unhappy with Reagan because he didn't name names," he said.
    •     The Washington Post reported that CBS had ample warning that the producers were anti-Reagan. In 1998, when they pitched a Reagan miniseries to ABC, Mr. Meron told Variety that its premise was, "Everybody wonders when we will have the first female American president, but what will become evident is that we've already had her."
    •     Mr. Moonves's planned to launch a reality series called "The Real Beverly Hillbillies." Using so-called "hick hunts," the network intended to move an uneducated Appalachian family into an opulent West Coast mansion and invite the nation to laugh at their bumbling ways.

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    "I did not have sex with that briber ... "


        Here's a bit of trivia you've never read before.  From December 20, 1998 through January, 2001, Democrats set the record for elected felons holding national office after being impeached.  Yesterday  the less well known of the two, Rep. Alcee L. Hastings,  announced he will vie for the Florida  senate seat being vacated by Bob Graham.  Beauty. 

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    A New Beginning

    Hillary & Al Franken formulate new Liberal policy
    Conservative "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, and Manhattan Institute have dominated in formulating political thought since the 1980's.  Liberals (of course) believe that the reason their own stink tanks (Economic Policy Institute, Communist Party, USA) have failed to generate a winning message,  is an inability to get their message out.  The answer?  The Center for American Progress — a new think tank headed by Clinton enabler John Podesta.  The star performer at its unveiling in Washington Monday was Hillary Clinton.  Greg Pierce notes that she took the podium to urge potential donors to "open up their wallets." She was followed by comedian and author Al Franken, who went on an extended diatribe against Fox News.
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    Convenient Stuff

    Here is the entire three part Washington Times excerpt of Zell Miller's book, A National Party No More

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    Beauty

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    November 04, 2003

    Lisa: "I thought you said it tasted terrible?"
    Bart: "But it's surprisingly smooth and mild."


    Here's a case where life clearly imitates the Simpsons.
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    Wailing & Gnashing

    As we speak, the Milky Way is performing a late term abortion.  I think. Lots of fancy talk going on.



    Are you sure it's not your hairspray that's responsible?
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    Woe is us

    Like a pine house built on a termite mound, CBS is so heavily infested with woe-weevils that it cannot be saved.  This is how the House of  Rather is handling the off year election successes by the GOP tonite.
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    Read it, Learn it, Live it

    The Pussification Of The Western Male,
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    Onion Fun

    Click for The ONION.COM
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    American Justice Files

    What's this?  He, who is married to It,  costs more than he's worth?  At least this time, only the guilty get hurt. 
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    Kids


    Hearing a scream from the playroom, the mother rushed in and found her infant daughter pulling the hair of her four-year-old brother.

    After separating them, the mother said to her son, "Don't be upset with your sister, honey. She didn't know she was hurting you."

    No sooner had the mother returned to he chores than she heard more screaming.

    This time she rushed in and found the baby crying. "Now what happened?" she asked.

    "Nothing," said the boy, "except that now she knows."

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    POD

    Not everything is black & white. For instance, is this a Liberal dog, letting nothing stand in its way to a free lunch? Or, a Conservative dog that will not let adversity stop him from achieving success. Hmmmmmm ......
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    Lunch Time Fun

     

    November 4, 2003 -- FIRST Daughter Barbara Bush was driven out of a shower in her college dorm by a noisy couple engaging in what sounded like kinky coital conduct in the stall next to her. The raunchy racket emanated from a stall at Yale University's Davenport dorm showers, where a male student and his girlfriend were using what sounded like a vibrator. Yale's Rumpus newspaper reports that Bush "was so grossed out, she had to leave mid-shower. When her roommate later confronted the guy about the offensive buzzing and sex noises, he responded, 'Oh, no, no, we weren't having sex, and that wasn't a vibrator. She was just shaving me.' " Of course! This isn't the first salacious story to emerge about the brainy Bush twin's Yale education. Last April, PAGE SIX reported that Hustler magazine honcho Larry Flynt was offering big bucks for a videotape that supposedly showed a nude Bush at one of Yale's notorious "naked parties." The tape has yet to materialize. - PAGE SIX

    Whatever became of that guy who botched killing Flynt?

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    Have you considered a career in tort law Mr. Gather?

     

    The lawyer for a man convicted of shooting and killing a policeman sings the  Bob Marley hit "I Shot The Sheriff" as he leaves the courtroom. - Reuters 
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    The Great Decline, Part 6

    Proper American manners by those invited to the White House have deteriorated so much that it's time to break one of etiquette's rock-hard rules: covering up the faux pas of social misfits. The year was 1994 and Bill Clinton was hosting his third state dinner, this time for South African President Nelson Mandela. There was the regular receiving line, drinks, then the dinner seating. But two guests were AWOL–Whitney Houston, the night's entertainment, and hubby Bobby Brown. Arriving late, the diva didn't like what she saw. Following protocol, Brown was seated at a different table from his wife. Houston threatened to leave, forcing East Wing aides to boot a guest from the voice's table. "It was deplorable," says our Clinton insider. Well, it's gotten worse: Some Bush guests don't even R.S.V.P. on time or write thank you notes. Kennedy social secretary and etiquette author Letitia Baldrige says, "When guests don't even answer the White House, it's really pulverizing to me." Her answer: Read some books–like her latest–and teach kids. "Manners really are good character." -  Paul Bedard
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    Media Notes

    CLICK FOR ORIGINAL ART 

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    Lesson learned? Nada

    "VIACOM CHAIR SUMNER REDSTONE EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERN FOR NETWORK BROADCAST... WILL AIR ON SHOWTIME UNCUT [WITH AIDS QUOTE ONLY DELETION]..."

    People are too stupid to associate Showtime with CBS

    CLICK for Original Art from SACRED COW  


    The Media Research Center goes into the
    archives for a history of  Reagan bashing  by leftist CBS snots.

    # Former Reagan Chief-of-Staff and Treasury Secretary Don Regan: "What’s the bottom line of the Reagan administration? It’s a great record."
         Lesley Stahl, host of Face the Nation: "Bottom line. Largest deficits in history. Largest debtor nation. Can’t afford to fix the housing emergency."
    -- Exchange on CBS’s Face the Nation, May 15, 1988.

         # "I predict historians are going to be totally baffled by how the American people fell in love with this man [Ronald Reagan] and followed him the way we did."
    -- CBS News White House reporter Lesley Stahl on NBC’s Later with Bob Costas, January 11, 1989.

         # “He talked about being proud of what’s happened with the economy, about the millions of new jobs that have been created. And as I listened to that, I also thought one out of five babies born in the United States are born into poverty. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country now that are homeless, have no place to live. I wonder, how does your father reconcile that in his mind? How does he reconcile those two things?”
    -- CBS This Morning co-host Harry Smith to Maureen Reagan on January 12, 1989, the morning after President Reagan's farewell address. (I tracked down this quote on Friday, which eluded us at the time, and MRC analyst Brian Boyd transcribed it.)

         # "The documentary has held up as both true and sadly prophetic. While Congress restored some of the cuts made in those first Reagan budgets, in the years since, the poor and the working poor have borne the brunt of the cost of the Reagan Revolution. The hardest-hit programs have been welfare, housing and other anti-poverty measures. Even programs that were not cut have failed to keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, rich people got big tax breaks. And the middle class kept most of their subsidies intact. As a result, the Reagan years brought on a wider gap between rich and poor."
    -- Bill Moyers, who was part of the CBS News team which produced the 1982 anti-Reagan documentary, CBS Reports: People Like Us, after PBS re-aired it on June 20, 1989.

         # "But analysts will also recognize that Ronald Reagan presided over a meltdown of the federal government during the last eight years. Fundamental management was abandoned in favor of rhetoric and imagery. A cynical disregard for the art of government led to wide-scale abuse. Only now are we coming to realize the cost of Mr. Reagan’s laissez-faire: the crisis in the savings and loan industry, the scandal in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the deterioration of the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities, the dangerous state of the air traffic control system -- not to mention the staggering deficit."
    -- CBS News reporter Terence Smith, who covered the White House during the Reagan years, in a November 5, 1989 New York Times op-ed.

         # "In just seven weeks, the '80s will be behind us. It was a decade dominated, in politics and in style, by the Reagans....While the wealthy got most of the attention, those who needed it most were often ignored. More homeless, less spending on housing. The gap between the top and the bottom grew in the '80s....The AIDS crisis began in the '80s. Some say the decade’s compassion gap made it worse."
    -- CBS This Morning co-host Kathleen Sullivan, November 13, 1989.

         # Bill Moyers: "When it comes to visuals, do you miss Ronald Reagan?"
         CBS’s Lesley Stahl: "Well, I guess as a television reporter yes, but as an American citizen, no."
    -- Exchange on PBS’s Bill Moyers: The Public Mind, November 22, 1989.

         # "If there’s anything that we heard out there at the polls today, it was the sound of Reaganomics crashing all around us. If there’s anything left of Reagan’s trickle-down theory, Dan, it seems to be anxiety which seems to be trickling down through just about every segment of our society."
    -- 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley during CBS News election night coverage, November 6, 1990.

         # “In the plague years of the 1980s -- that low decade of denial, indifference, hostility, opportunism, and idiocy -- government fiddled, medicine diddled, and the media were silent or hysterical. A gerontocratic Ronald Reagan took this [AIDS] plague less seriously than Gerald Ford had taken swine flu. After all, he didn’t need the ghettos and he didn’t want the gays.”
    -- CBS Sunday Morning TV critic John Leonard, September 5, 1993.

         # "The legacy of the Reagan administration will be with us for years. The deficit under Reagan totaled more than a trillion dollars. Someday we're going to have to pay those bills. As officials look to cut spending and taxes at the same time, we can't afford another round of voodoo economics....I remember that campaign slogan one year `It's morning again in America.' Well, it may have been morning for some, but for a lot of people in this country it's become a nightmare."
    -- CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley in an April 28, 1996 speech to Benedictine University in Illinois, aired May 11, 1996 on C-SPAN.

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    Frank Capra, Meet Linda Tripp


    Linda Tripp Goes to Washington

        Linda Tripp will get more than $595,000 from the Defense Department to settle a lawsuit over the release of confidential personal information about her to a magazine.   Kenneth H. Bacon, a Clinton DOD appointee, and sycophant (redundancy alert),  is the man directly responsible for the Tripp smear, so why don't we, the taxpayers,  file a lawsuit to recover damages? 

        As an aside, I've always wondered how Frank Capra, he of so many idealistic Hollywood films about America (like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), would have treated the Linda Tripp story.  Of course, we already know how today's Hollywood muck-a-mucks behaved.

    Man (pitching script  to Frank Capra): "Mr. Capra, I've got a great script for you, a natural follow up to Mr. Smith."
    Capra:
    "Quickly, I'm in a hurry."
    Man "Okay, this White House staffer, see, she witnesses illegal actions by the President of the United States,  makes president nervous; gets transferred out of White House to the War Department where she befriends president's mistress ...."
    Capra: "Mistress?  Wait a minute, this President's married and is having an affair?"
    Man "Yes, with a teenager .. I see James Mason in the role.  Anyway  he 's doing this teenager who he brought into the White House for sex.  Where was I ... oh yeah,  this mistress later attempts to suborn our heroine's  testimony against the  president in a civil trial, you know, asks her to commit perjury.  She reveals this to investigators already looking into criminal activities of president and his wife.   She is attacked and ridiculed by the big newspapers, and Winchell, who are friends of the prez and are trying to save him from impeachment.  The president's men try to blackmail her, by threatening to release trumped up accusations, but she won't give in, and eventually the president is impeached, and it turns out he was selling secrets to the Nazis and the ... "
    Capra: "STOP! Are you nuts?  The American public would never buy the premise of a president that evil, and I certainly don't want any association with anything so vile.  Maybe DeMille will bite, but not me.  Get out!"

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    she drove a Beemer too




    An anchor for BBC World Service radio says she was fired after three years on the job because officials at the network thought she sounded too wealthy, too well spoken and too "white."

    Zenab Ahmed -- whose father is Pakistani -- says the BBC World Service -- "is on a mission to sound classless...The BBC should retain those of us from under-represented ethnic groups -- to whom it claims to be reaching out -- instead of ditching us on a whim." The BBC, however, tells London's Telegraph that Ahmed's firing -- "had nothing to do with her accent."  Brit Hume


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    Fun mit NewsMax


    CLICK
    I'm not suggesting a  moral equivalency here, just 
    a bit of tawdriness by NewsMax .
    CLICK


    PS. CBS has canceled the Reagan series according to Drudge at this hour.

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    November 03, 2003

    Dumb & Dumber

    How We Bush Botched the German Iraqi Occupation
    January 26. 1946  November 2, 2003

    ("WE" & "BUSH" = 2 links)
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    Flies in the ointment



    In anticipation of Katie Couric extolling the virtues of Communist China's health care system, this, from the Independent Online

    Hong Kong - A supermarket in southern China has ordered its workers to each kill at least five flies every day, forbidding them to go home until the quota is met, a news report said on Monday.

    The rule has been introduced to improve hygiene at the supermarket in Guangzhou's Baiyun district, according to the South China Morning Post. - Sapa-DPA

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    Take that you form filling slackard!


         "In 1970 I borrowed $1,500 through the FISL program for my first year of college. I never borrowed money after that, but didn't realize that I had to fill out a form every year showing I was still in school (in order to defer payments). Anyway, I didn't and the loan went into default. When they contacted me I advised I was still in school and would repay the loan when I graduated. Since I was somewhat radical and wouldn't discuss it with them, they started an almost daily campaign of harrassing my poor and easily frightened parents, mainly threatening to take their house. When I found out, I sent FISL a long letter listing money owed to the United States by various European countries and asked if they were harrassing the elderly people of those nations, and what had been confiscated from them recently. Within two weeks I received a summons to appear in Federal Court and became the first person in New Mexico to be filed on for defaulting on a Federally Insured Student Loan."  - Reader response to We'll take that place where you make the vinegar in lieu of cash ...

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    Nuts. Just nuts.

    Barbarastreisand.com

    TRUTH ALERT:
    October 30, 2003http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/2/161204.shtml

    What's all this fuss about Barbra Streisand's involvement in the upcoming CBS biopic about Ronald and Nancy Reagan? The Republican spin machine would like you to believe that Ms. Streisand, a well-known liberal activist, was intimately connected to the making of this film. The Drudge Report even said that she spent weeks on the set!

    The truth? Ms. Streisand was on the set of The Reagans for a total of only 4 hours of one day. Any one of hundreds of people involved in its making could have told Mr. Drudge this truth, if he had only bothered to ask.


    Furthermore, Ms. Streisand has never even read the script! She has also never seen the film, which stars her husband James Brolin. Mr. Brolin



     but, in the next breath :

    Republicans, who deify President Reagan, cannot stand that some of the more unpleasant truths about his character and presidency might be depicted in the movie

    James Hirsen has more ...

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    Oh Harold, you're so impetuous

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    We'll take that place where you make the vinegar in lieu of cash ...


    Français Googlers D'Attention : Nous prendrons cette place où vous faites le vinaigre au lieu de l'argent comptant...



    During and after World War I, the U.S. extended a substantial amount of credit to its European allies. In 1922, the U.S. and 15 European countries agreed on a total indebtedness of about $11.5 billion -- slightly more than $4 billion for France. Payments were made until 1931, mostly from German war reparations. Then the Depression led Hoover to declare a one-year moratorium, and by 1934 all but two of the countries defaulted. As of last December, according to the U.S. Treasury, principal and accrued interest on the French debt amounted to about $11.8 billion ... (WSJ)
    Pendant et après la guerre mondiale I, les ETATS-UNIS ont prorogé un montant substantiel de crédit à ses alliés européens. En 1922, les ETATS-UNIS et 15 pays européens ont convenu sur un endettement total d'environ $11,5 milliards -- légèrement plus de $4 milliards pour la France. Des paiements ont été effectués jusqu'en 1931, la plupart du temps à partir des réparations allemandes de guerre. Alors la dépression a mené l'aspirateur à déclarer un moratoire d'une année, et par 1934 tout sauf deux des pays se sont transférés. En date de décembre passé, selon le trésor des ETATS-UNIS, l'intérêt principal et accru sur la dette française s'est élevé à environ $11,8 milliards... (WSJ)

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    Opening Friday ... Ed Asner's newest film. Shhhhhhhh

    More from the Today Show (the things I won't do for you people).  The coke-head just interviewed James Caan about his part in  ELF, which opens Friday. The name "Ed Asner" (who plays Santa) was not mentioned.  Nor has it been mentioned during the televised trailers being shown all over the place.  Is it because they know that foreknowledge of that ratbastardcommie Asner's profiting from this film  will cost them millions in lost revenues?  Shhhhhhh ....
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    Stench. Lots of Stench.

        That France, Russia and Germany were complicit in trying to keep Saddam Hussein in power is a matter of record.  So, who is really surprised by Tariq Aziz' explanation of why Saddam offered so little resistance to invading U.S. ground troops?

    "Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, who surrendered in April, told interrogators that after meeting with Russian and French intermediaries, Saddam was convinced that he could avoid a war, the newspaper said, citing US officials.

    "The report said Aziz told interrogators that French and Russian intermediaries assured Saddam during late 2002 and early this year that they would block a US-led war through delays and vetoes at the UN Security Council"  - Not the New York Times

          Of course, Aziz is a liar, but even liars tell the truth on occasion (e.g. - Bill Clinton correctly states that he owns a home in New York)   Billions and billions of dollars in oil and munition contracts persuaded these filthy bastards that backstabbing their friend was the cool thing to do.  Also siding with those filthy bastards were our own domestic F.B.'s - Democrats and their media enablers. Given their bond with the French, I'm currently parked on the Today Show, waiting to hear  how they report Mr. Aziz' comments.  So far, they have managed to report the Chinook deaths  without uttering the words 'Russian SA7."  Which, by the way, reminds me.  Where the hell is all the furor over coke head Matt Lauer?   No kidding, I have not heard a single word about this.  Is Matt preparing to sue the Enquirer?  Is he going to take a month off to kick his habit?  And, what in heck was Mrs. Ritter thinking?  The stench from John's rotting corpse would be unbearable for other cast members.  We want to know. 

    Matt Lauer - Coke head
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    November 02, 2003

    Brogin' in Beijing

    Here's Chinese cuzzin  Wun-Hung-Lo's Brog
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    A Jackie Chiles moment

    Jackie Chiles is on the case

    The Royal British Legion has stopped supplying pins with its poppies because it fears compensation claims from "injured" members of the public.

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    Sheesh

    Afro Willy
        Memphis Commercial Appeal journalist Wendi Thomas , an African American woman struggling with her admiration for a man who's a liar, cheat, adulterer, and an embarrassment to the nation, comes to a conclusion.

    " I know this makes absolutely no sense - [but all that] only served to make him more likable."

         Yup, Bill "Slick Willy" (he hates the sobriquet) Clinton was in town to receive the  National Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum.  The crowd swooned when Slicky tossed the word "nigger" around.  "What other politician could do that?" asks Ms. Thomas.

       Well, David Duke used it as an applause line, and now so does Mr. Willy.  For much the same reasons if you really think about it.  Sheesh.

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    Sunday Quiz

    Who said this"
    "Most small businesses fail in the first year, so let's give entrepreneurs a period [two years] of no taxation so they can get their operations on their feet."
    1. Al bert Einstein
    2. Ronald Reagan
    3. The smartest kid in the third grade
    4. Al Sharpton

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    November 01, 2003

    Cagy Donk v. Stoopid Donk

    Dean
    Gephardt
    "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," the former Vermont governor was quoted as saying in Saturday's Des Moines Register. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."

    "I don't want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," Gephardt said in a statement. "I will win the Democratic nomination because I will be the candidate for guys with American flags in their pickup trucks."




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    Master baiters

    CLICK


    If somebody sent me this e-mail ...
    "youre a fucking right wing nazi! guns should be illegal and all nazi's like you should be locked away....bush is NOT a legitimate prez and the US should get out of iraq you fucking amerikan pig!"

    ... I would get all bent out of shape and use both C words in conjunction with variations of the F word and my kids would be crying and my wife would be mad.  Later, I'd wish for the presence of mind to respond like the Baron did.
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    ATM Fun

    CLICK
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    DOH!




    The Simpsons vs. Fox News

    Doh! "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening may have crossed the line with his comment last week to National Public Radio's Terry Gross that Fox media empire almost sued itself. (Now that takes some talent!)

    The story goes that Fox News Channel execs were none too thrilled last year when the wildly popular cartoon, which is on Fox Broadcasting, featured a fake news ticker mocking the station's conservative rep. The headlines included gems such as: "Do Democrats Cause Cancer? . . . Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay . . . JFK posthumously joins Republican Party . . ."

    "Fox fought against it and said that they would sue the show," Groening told Gross. "And we called their bluff because we didn't think that Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So we got away with it," he said, proud of the accomplishment.

    "The Simpsons" (the show, not the characters) issued an apology yesterday: "Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News. We regret any confusion."  [WaPost]

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    Was William Strier just a method actor boning up for a role as Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI ?

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    1000 Words

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    We'll get to learn a second language too


    The Wisdom of Howard Dean

     "It's a good thing the current crop of Democratic candidates weren't running for president in 1944. Instead of defeating Hitler and Tojo, we might have ended up with an "exit strategy" that saved American lives in the short run but cost us our freedom and way of life. Indeed, the Democrats' disgraceful performances to date suggest that most of the candidates would like to cut and run from Iraq, no matter what the consequences. Unfortunately, they've managed to convince a majority of their fellow party members that this is the right thing to do.
        "According to the latest Gallup Poll on the issue, 70 percent of Democrats want a full or partial withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Back in April, 54 percent of Democrats fully supported the war. Now, only 24 percent of Democrats — but 88 percent of Republicans — say they still support the war. This kind of partisan polarization is dangerous, especially when the United States faces perhaps the gravest threat in our nation's history. " Cut-and-run chorus
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    Half-Cocked & Half Assed

    Click for Original Art

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    What ... Me Worry?
    (That's why she loves New York)



        The filthy female senator from New York this week accused the White House of trying to cover up the visual impact of U.S. casualties in Iraq by refusing to let Americans see "the sight of caskets coming home" to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and by "refusing to release" timely casualty figures.

    "In fact, preventing the media from filming the arrival of dead servicemen at Dover has been government policy for the past decade.

    "Including when Bill Clinton was president - and Americans came home in coffins from places like Somalia and Haiti and Bosnia/Herzegovina and from the port of Yemen, where USS Cole was attacked by Osama bin Laden.

    "We don't recall either Hillary or her husband inviting press photographers to Dover to film the arrival of those coffins.

    "Just as we don't recall congressional Republicans ever criticizing Bill Clinton for not doing so."  - HILLARY'S CHUTZPAH

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    Dallas Outrage


    School officials are investigating reports that a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy engaged in oral sex during a science class at Robert T. Hill Middle School. - Star-Telegram Dallas Bureau
    More Clinton legacy?  Of course.  But, that's not even the most outrageous aspect of this story.  This is.
    " ... police filed a sexual assault charge against the boy. "
    Come on, she wanted it.
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    How Stuff Works

    "In 1988, Mr. [Ralph "The Unctious"] Nader and Sidney Wolfe, head of his Public Citizen Health Research Group, started to lobby for regulation of the implants, which had been used by some two million women over 30 years. Soon trial lawyers convened a Breast Implant Litigation Group; one San Jose firm invested $3 million of its own capital in filing some 90 lawsuits. In December 1991, San Francisco lawyer Don Bolton won a $7.3 million jury verdict for a plaintiff who alleged that her implants had caused an autoimmune disease, despite testimony by her own doctors that she had symptoms before the implants. In January 1992, FDA commissioner David Kessler called for a moratorium on the implants, citing no scientific study but the Bolton verdict." -  The Power of Modern Fads

    The Power of Modern Fads
    By ROBERT L. BARTLEY

    A couple of disparate events sent ripples of satisfaction through our editorial-page offices last week. A Massachusetts parole board at long last recommended Gerald Amirault for parole, and a Food and Drug Administration panel recommended that silicone breast implants be returned to the market.

    Both are causes which these pages championed. We kept pointing out that the nursery-care child-abuse charges brought against Mr. Amirault and so many others were wildly implausible. And that whatever you may think of cosmetic breast surgery, the case that the implants were unsafe could withstand no scientific scrutiny. In each case, respectable -- and politically correct -- opinion chastised us for such heretical views.

    That is to say, what unites the two cases is our willingness to stand against the fads that periodically sweep our society, and especially our chattering classes. In an age of instant communications, we become members of a huge world-wide tribe, in constant contact with the thoughts and emotions of our fellow members everywhere. This carries many blessings, not least in undermining of local totalitarian regimes. But like tribal societies throughout the ages, it's vulnerable to sudden surges of emotions, to shared if unexamined assumptions that harden into instant fads.

    When the tribe decided in the 1980s that nursery schools were likely outposts of child abuse, a series of prosecutions swept the country, from California to New Jersey to Massachusetts to isolated Wenatchee, Wash. Prosecutors earned dozens of convictions, often based on stories such as children tied to trees and raped in broad daylight or being impaled by various implausible instruments.

    Our Dorothy Rabinowitz had already unwound one of these cases even before she joined the Journal as a critic and editorial-board member. She has since systematically unwound most of the rest, exposing a pattern of prosecutorial assistants using leading questions with "anatomically correct" dolls to elicit testimony from children in support of the charges. A fad, that is, supported by the "politically correct" view that child abuse was likely by nursery workers, as opposed, say, to live-in boyfriends.

    Gerald Amirault, remaining in jail after his mother and sister have been freed, is a remnant of sorts. His release will bring down the curtain on this sad saga of American jurisprudence. By now most sensible people recognize that great injustices have been done. The fad has been defeated, but not without horrible costs to Gerald Amirault and others.

    Let me say, though, that this was an uphill fight. The rest of the press, in particular, was no help. The editor of one local paper invited me to send a second reporter for a guided tour of the case. The Pulitzer committee rejected Dorothy's nomination three times, but finally did endow her in 2001, when her entry included not only child abuse coverage but her enthusiasm for the presidential campaign of press favorite John McCain.

    While victims of the breast-implant fad were not as dramatic as Gerald Amirault, in another way it was even more of an outrage. This was a deliberate, for-profit fad. The tort liability bar proved again that it knows how to exploit modern sensibilities to stoke fears of disease, raise hopes of a cash windfall and shape expectations of a national jury pool. In this it had the considerable assistance of the Ralph Nader empire; his "Public Citizen" sold information kits directly to breast-implant lawyers.

    In 1988, Mr. Nader and Sidney Wolfe, head of his Public Citizen Health Research Group, started to lobby for regulation of the implants, which had been used by some two million women over 30 years. Soon trial lawyers convened a Breast Implant Litigation Group; one San Jose firm invested $3 million of its own capital in filing some 90 lawsuits. In December 1991, San Francisco lawyer Don Bolton won a $7.3 million jury verdict for a plaintiff who alleged that her implants had caused an autoimmune disease, despite testimony by her own doctors that she had symptoms before the implants. In January 1992, FDA commissioner David Kessler called for a moratorium on the implants, citing no scientific study but the Bolton verdict.

    As early as June 1992, Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, published an editorial denouncing the ban. A survey of the matchless epidemiological records at the Mayo Clinic found no association between implants and autoimmune diseases. Both Dr. Angell and Mayo researcher Dr. Sherine E. Gabriel were rewarded with a barrage of subpoenas from tort lawyers.

    From the first, in short, it was easy enough to see that the breast-implant scare was a fad, fed by an always underlying fear of science, the pecuniary interests of the tort lawyers and political correctness. One adviser to Mr. Kessler said the FDA should "deliver a profoundly important message to the American public involving basic values, concepts of beauty." This attitude is not so easy to sustain when implants are used for reconstruction following mastectomies, of course, and soon the suspicion of silicone led to a ban on the detachable silicone balloon, a device used against life-threatening aneurysms of the brain.

    The press, again, was not much help in getting to the truth. The usual theme was "profit." That is, since companies made implants for profit, their arguments should be discounted. Mention was seldom made of the lawyers' financial interests, which amounted to one-third or more of all awards or settlements -- a third, that is, of what is now calculated at some $4.5 billion. And of course, Dow Corning, the leading implant manufacturer, declared bankruptcy in 1995. FDA approval will vindicate science, but where do shareholders or former employees apply for their money and jobs?

    Fads, that is, have real consequences. And with tribal cohesion, it seems, there are not many to stand against them, least of all among guardians of the press. So serious people have to be careful to cling stubbornly to reality, to refuse to give the passing craze the benefit of suspension of disbelief.

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