Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This blog will pay for itself.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Petty moves from a petty man.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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More Celebrity Opinions

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The straw man arguments about dissent and patriotism do get a bit tiring (by which I mean the immediate response that you are attacking someone’s patriotism when you state that you disagree with their protest of a war in Iraq), so it is refreshing to see something as blatantly obnoxious as this from Pretenders rocker Chrissie Hynde:

Between songs, the pugnacious Hynde, in a classic black T-shirt and jeans, bantered and battled with the crowd. She dedicated “You Know Who Your Friends Are” to “all you junkies and f–,” gave a shout-out to the late Joe Strummer, opined that she hopes the United States loses if it goes to war with Iraq (“Bring it on! Give us what we deserve!”), and introduced the song “Fools Must Die” with the self-deprecating quip, “I’ll show you how it’s done.”

It must just kill her to know that Rush Limbaugh uses ‘My City Was Gone’ as his intro theme.

*** Update ***

Instapundit calls Chrissie Hynde “ANOTHER ANTI-WAR SPEAKER WHO HATES AMERICA?”

Instapundit is forgetting something- she hates her adopted country of England, too. If and when we engage in this ‘unilateral’ action, there will be plenty of Brits by our side.

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Another One Down, How Many More to Go?

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More good news:

The Justice Department announced the arrest today of an accused financier for Al Qaeda, a Yemeni cleric who once boasted of handing Osama bin Laden $20 million in cash for use in terrorist operations in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The cleric, Mohammed al Hasan Al-Moayad, and a Yemeni cohort, Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayer, were arrested in Frankfurt on Jan. 10, based on sealed complaints issued in Brooklyn, N.Y. The government unsealed the coplaints today and announced that the United States is seeking the extradition of the two men, who are being held in Germany.

This extradition bit should be interesting, what with the current unpleasantness.

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Sully Nails It

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Many times, Sully’s rhetoric is over the top, but he nails it here:

For some it’s about “war” in general – a newly empowered new age pacifism. For France, it’s about … France, and its eclipse as a power of any significance. France’s crisis is deepened by the fact that a successful war against Saddam could also accelerate the end of the Franco-German bloc as the power-house of the European Union. For Russia, it’s about money. For the Germans, it’s about a new national identity. The Germans have never been able to sustain a moderate polity on their own. They veer from extreme romantic militarism to romantic pacifism. Their current abdication of all strategic responsibility for Europe or the wider world is just another all-too-familiar spasm from German history. For the broader anti-war forces in Europe, it’s about American uni-polar power – and the need to counteract it, even if it’s being put to good use. For still others, especially in the Vatican and France, it’s the old Jew-hatred again. For the Democrats, it’s about getting back to prescription drugs. For the anti-war left in America, it’s really about Bush. The pent-up fury they felt after Florida never found expression or even validation in the wider culture. It was repressed in the first months of a new presidency – and then made irrelevant by 9/11. Finally, they have a chance to demonstrate their hate – which is why so much of the demonstrations’ focus has not been on Saddam, Iraq or even war, but on Bush. The anti-Bush left knows that a successful war will only strengthen the president further and marginalize them even more – hence their utter desperation and viciousness today. This is their moment; and the demonstrations are their therapy.

Mmmhmm.

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The Cat

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Today my cat learned not only where Dad keeps the Pounce treats, but how to open Pounce treats without having opposable thumbs. Blunt force trauma to the container seems to have been the method of choice.

So far, the enemies list for the week includes two rolls of toilet paper, one roll of paper towels, a sandwich bag, four pens, a candle, a lighter, five toy mice, and a container of Pounce treats. All have been terminated with extreme prejudice.

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Life Imitates Art

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Via Rantburg, we note this story:

Afghan authorities have arrested a Pakistani man in eastern Afghanistan, accusing him of spying for his country, officials said Sunday. The man, Sayed Wali, was arrested Wednesday by border guards on charges of illegally entering Afghanistan in eastern Nangarhar province.

Sayed Wali- Why does that name sound so familiar?

Is Sayed Wali the same man as the notorious Syed Ali, terrorist mastermind in the hit show 24? Does Mr. Wali know where the bomb is located? Should Jack Bauer and President Palmer be notified? And how did he get from the mosque in LA to the Pakistan border this quickly?

Questions…

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