Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

This blog will pay for itself.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Stand up, dammit!

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Republicans in disarray!

In after Baud. Damn.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

I really should read my own blog.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

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WV Sniper Update

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If this string of murders continues, and if the narcissistic NY Press gets their AC back, we will probably hear more about the random killings that appear to look like the DC sniper attacks from last year. At any rate, here is another news story on the issue:

Two people were killed late Thursday in separate shootings outside Kanawha County convenience stores, in what police said could be related random shootings.

The two became the second and third people shot dead outside Kanawha Valley convenience stores within four days, and the third and fourth people murdered in Kanawha County on a bloody Thursday.

Thursday night, a woman was gunned down while pumping gas at a Campbells Creek convenience store about 10:20 p.m., while another person was shot slightly more than an hour later outside a Cedar Grove store. Both were killed.

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Curiouser and Curiouser

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I just don’t get this statement:

Now, there’s no question that Arnold has racial baggage: he supported Proposition 187, he’s hired a bunch of Pete Wilson’s campaign people, he’s got the whole Nazi father thing to deal with, and he belongs to U.S. English, a group that advocates making English the official language of the United States. But even so, I wonder if that’s really such a big problem.

This is racial baggage? His dad, support for Prop 187, and wanting English to be the official language? The bar for racism, or, in this case, allegations of racism, has now been lowered to the point that the term is meaningless- which is a shame. There are some real racist pukes out there.

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F– The French

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The other day, Calpundit posted his list of interesting conservative weblogs. Someone in the comments section said I should be (I am not sure how conservative I really am), and this jackass sneered:

Balloon Juice is just another one of those French-bashing snicker snicker types. Best to avoid.

Hehe. At any rate, why bash the French, when all you have to do is point out what they are doing:

France was on Friday resisting a US-backed plan to lift UN sanctions against Libya in exchange for financial compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing, saying that victims of a later attack should also get a similar pay-out.

France “is not prepared to waver on this,” foreign ministry spokesperson Cecile Pozzo di Borgo said on Thursday, referring to a demand that Libya provide more compensation for the families of 170 people killed in the 1989 blast that brought down a French airliner over west Africa.

So France is going to use its position on the Security Council to block the lifting of sanctions, scuttling the deal, because it is better than the deal they negotiated several years ago (a deal that did not even think about the Lockerbie victims).

Libya, two of whose nationals were sentenced and jailed over the attack, has now agreed to pay out $2.7bn to victims’ families in exchange for a gradual lifting of international sanctions.

However France has said it wants similar compensation for the families of the 170 people who died when an airliner operated by the UTA company was blown out of the sky by a bomb over the Sahara Desert less than a year later, on September 19, 1989.

Libya has already paid

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Malvo Repeat?

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This is the story that will soon dominate all headlines:

KANAWHA, W.Va. — Two people are dead after two separate shootings at two different gas stations in West Virginia.

The first shooting was reported around 10:15 p.m. Thursday at a Speedway Gas Station in Campbells Creek. Police say woman was shot in the head while she was pumping gas.

Then around 11:45 p.m., at the Go-Mart in Cedar Grove, another victim was also shot and killed.

Officials with the Kanawha County sheriff’s department say they are looking to see if the shootings are connected.

“Anytime you have a case like this and you have related incidents you are going to look at similarities,” said Sheriff’s department spokesman Jeff Bailes. “It doesn’t necessarily mean they are connected but you have to look at that possibility.”

Thursday’s shootings come less than a day after two people were found dead in their car in Charleston, W.Va., and earlier this week a man was shot and killed while talking on a pay hone at the Go-Mart in Charleston, W.Va.

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Hardball for Huffington

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Damn fat cats:

TV commentator and author Arianna Huffington, who launched her campaign for governor with criticism of “fat cats” who fail to shoulder a fair share of taxes, paid no individual state income tax and just $771 in federal taxes during the last two years, her tax returns show.

Huffington, who released her tax returns for the last two years to The Times, lives in an 8,000-square-foot home in Brentwood above Sunset Boulevard that is valued at about $7 million. She socializes with many wealthy and prominent people.

But the returns show that at least for the last two years, her income was far outweighed by losses that she reported were incurred by Christabella Inc., the private corporation she owns and uses to manage her writing and lecturing business.

I guess I am officially a fat cat now.

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Supporting Our Troops?

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I am not going to even pretend to know what these jackasses are thinking:

The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120- degree-plus heat.

Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last April of $75 a month in “imminent danger pay” and $150 a month in “family separation allowances.”

The Defense Department supports the cuts, saying its budget can’t sustain the higher payments amid a host of other priorities. But the proposed cuts have stirred anger among military families and veterans’ groups and even prompted an editorial attack in the Army Times, a weekly newspaper for military personnel and their families that is seldom so outspoken.

I simply can not defend this decision in any way shape or form. Just plain bad policy and bad politics.

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