Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Be a wild strawberry.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

“They all knew.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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Frank Lautenberg- Gray Davis NEEDS You

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Matthew Yglesias has been hammering the Bush adminstration lately regarding the budget, and he is half right. He is wrong about tax cuts, right about the lack of fiscal restraint. Today he seized upon a this gimmick by Frank Lautenberg:

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, unveiled a mock credit card with President Bush’s picture on it, drawn on “The Bank of Our Children’s Future,” which was stamped as over its credit limit.

Matt says this is a great idea- he might want to pass it on to the GOP in California:

California Gov. Gray Davis unveiled an overhauled $96-billion budget on Wednesday that relies heavily on more borrowing paired with tax increases and spending cuts aimed at closing a record shortfall projected at $38 billion.

Davis, a Democrat, backed away from his earlier call for steeper tax increases and program cuts in the face of opposition in the Democrat-controlled legislature, choosing instead to borrow more and shift the burden to future years.

We couldn’t find ANYONE to beat Gray Davis?

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Salam Pax- Saddam’s Agent?

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That is what David Warren seems to think:

Salam refers to the Americans slickly as the “puppet-masters.” He speaks approvingly of old Iraqi Communists organizing their poster (and subversion) campaigns, and is suddenly sympathetic when they happen to appropriate some office space. He mentions in passing linking up with a Western leftist group called “CIVIC” (Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict) to document civilian casualties from the U.S. invasion that liberated the country.

And this from a person who shows no guilt whatever at his own family membership in a Baathist regime that killed some hundreds of thousands of civilians — entirely on purpose. He dismisses all that as “a few bad apples,” without thinking to volunteer any sort of information on where such bad apples might now be hiding.

He builds a strong case.

(via Occam’s Toothbrush)

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Saudi Explosions

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Apparently the chatter was real and terrorists have struck in Saudi Arabia. I will post more details when I can sift through them and make some sense. This quote from the news story is interesting:

On May 7 police said they were hunting 19 suspected militants, mainly Saudis, believed to be hiding in Riyadh after a shoot-out with security forces the previous day.

The Interior Ministry said police had also found a huge cache of explosives, hand grenades, ammunition and machineguns after storming what they said was the “terrorists’ lair.”

I don’t remember where I saw it (it was somewhere in the blogosphere), but I remember someone asking what the significance of the number 19 was to the terrorists (19 terrorists committed the 9/11 atrocities). Last night, while reading the Age of Sacred Terror, I came across this Sura from the Quran:

Over it are Nineteen.

And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, “What symbol doth Allah intend by this ?” Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

The translation I have posted is slightly different from the one in The Age of Sacred Terror, so here is another translation:

Above it are nineteen.

We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude ? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals.

You have to read the whole Sura to really get the gist of it- essentially it is a threat to unbelievers. They will be thrown into the ‘burning’ or what is alternately called the ‘Hell-Fire,’ and the nineteen are there to be the “Wardens of the Fire.” At anyrate, that is the only significance of the number nineteen that I have stumbled across.

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Last on Jayson Blair

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I think the thing that is being missed the most in the coverage about Jayson Blair is the personal aspect of it. I am not apologizing for his behavior- he will and should have to pay the price for his misdeeds- but am I the only person who looks at this young guy and thinks “What is he going to do with the rest of his life?”

The NY Times will recover- in fact it already has. I expect there will be four op-eds penned tomorrow bashing something or another about the current administration. What will happen to Jayson Blair – he is simply ruined, done, finished. Even if he brought in on himself, it is nothing to be gleeful about. It really is kind of sad.

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Apparently Blair did this at the Boston Globe, as well.

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