Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

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

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

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Skull and Bones

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Leave it to the Coast to Coast AM guys to find this story:

The “tomb” stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms.

Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones, America’s most elite and elusive secret society – and it has become the unlikely focus of this year’s presidential election. It turns out that four leading contestants for the White House in November’s election were 1960s undergraduates at Yale: President Bush and Democratic rivals Governor Howard Dean, Sen John Kerry and Sen Joseph Lieberman.

What is more, two are “Bonesmen”. Both Sen Kerry, now the Democrat front runner, and President Bush belong to the 172-year-old society, which aims to get its members into positions of power. This presidential election seems destined to become the first in history to pit one Skull and Bones member against another.

The phenomenon of the “Yalies”, as Yale alumni are known, has provoked an intense debate over apparent elitism among Americans amazed that – in a democracy of almost 300 million people – the battle for power should be waged among candidates drawn from the 4,000 who graduated from Yale in four different years of the 1960s.

This should keep the conspiracy freaks going for a while.

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Now How Will They Fault Him?

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It will be intersting to see how this is spun into more anti-Bush agitprop:

President Bush reversed himself Wednesday and said he now supports giving a commission investigating the 9/11 attacks more time to produce a final report.

The commission is scheduled to finish its work on May 27. But panel members last month asked Congress for a two-month extension, citing a need for full analysis of reams of documents about the disaster.

Bush had resisted that request for months, saying through his spokesmen that the administration wanted the panel to complete its work as soon as possible. Privately, White House aides feared that delaying the commission’s final report would result in a potentially damaging assessment of the administration’s handling of pre-attack intelligence in the heat of a presidential campaign.

On Wednesday, the White House relented, saying it backed moving the deadline to July 26. But White House spokesman Scott McClellan also urged the commission to wrap up its work 30 days after that. If Congress accepts Bush’s recommendation, the report would arrive at the end of August, just as the presidential campaign is entering the post-Labor Day final stretch.

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John Kerry on the National Guard and Army Reserve

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Here are Kerry’s real thoughts about the National Guard:

“I’ve never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard,” Mr. Kerry said. “Those are choices people make.”

Talk amongst yourselves.

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The Asshole Left

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Check out this story:

Bob Novak, the pugnacious conservative pundit, may have to answer an assault charge in Manchester, N.H., stemming from an altercation with an activist on primary night last month. The dust-up ensued after Brad Carr, 54, who calls himself “an independent citizen” who’s against the Bush administration, taunted Novak, 72, a host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” which was broadcasting live from a restaurant.

“I called him a traitor because of his involvement in the outing of Valerie Plame, which I think is unconscionable,” Carr told us yesterday, recounting the Jan. 27 incident, which he reported to police. “He gave me a dirty look and ignored me, so I followed him outside to a CNN bus [where] I called him a traitor, probably for the fifth or sixth time. . . . He turned around and grabbed me by the arm . . . gave me a little shove, cocked his arm back as though he was going to hit me, and then someone from behind dragged him away to the bus.”

Carr, a stocky fellow, slipped on the ice into the arms of self-described progressive activist Mike Stinson, who told us, “I have a back problem — I don’t need to be catching big men.” Details were posted on the Web site takebackthemedia.com, with these headlines next to Novak’s scowling mug: “Why is This Man So Angry? Bob Novak assaults man in New Hampshire!! Contact CNN and tell them you don’t like it!”

The name Mike Stinson should sound familiar, and you should not have to google it. In case you don’t remember, here is who Mike Stinson is:

One of the finalists of the MoveOn.org ad contest is responsible for another heinous web video that compares Bush to Hitler, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

An ad by “Take Back the Media” is one of 15 Finalists in MoveOn.org’s Bush in 30 Seconds Commercial Contest. Produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN], The ARMY OF ONE flash animation has been chosen out of over 1000 submission by nearly 3 million votes online.

But currently streaming on the Take Back site with ARMY OF ONE is another shocking advert produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN] — alleging Bush/Nazi ties!

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

I wish you had punched them both, Novak.

This is going to be the most vicious, bitter, and bile filled election in history. These lunatics need to be locked up.

*** Update ***

I am not alone on this one…

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My Apologies

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My apologies to the nation. Until recently, I had been a proud veteran. I realize now that since I have no proof of my service other than my DD-214 and several plaques and ribbons, which clearly does not protect me from charges of desertion.

Until I can find the appropriate paperwork from my ten years of service, I hereby declare myself a deserter and AWOL. Also, I apologize to the Army and the WV National Guard, who must have been accomplices in my deception- how else can I describe their allowing me to leave the services without charging me?

At any rate, I apologize for failing the nation, as I clearly am a deserter.

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Since the new myth is that IRS records will somehow prove where Bush was or wasn’t, here is an exercise for the readers. IN 1997, my W2 from the National Guard that I filed with my 1040 stated I earned roughly $3500.00 gross pay. With that handy, useful, and pertinent information, someone please tell me:

What months I reported for drill in FY 1997.
Which months I missed (I missed 6 and made them up at a later date).
Where I made up those drills.
What I did to make up those drills.
Why did the National Guard, with a clear absence of documentation today, pronounce that I had served a ‘good year.’ (Again, know-nothings, I don’t expect you to know what a ‘good year’ is.)

Until then, I remain your forlorn self-admitted deserter.

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Dean For America Meets the Breakfast Club

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Check out this guest entry from Howard Dean’s Blog for America:

Guest Blog from TMB in VT

Hello all,

My name is Tim; you may know me from the blog as TMB in VT. I’ve never been involved in politics, I never cared enough. But today I care, because of Howard Dean. I’m here in the Burlington Headquarters. Man are we busy! It reminds me of a colony of workers ants. We all are going about our individual tasks with a one-minded efficiency. As we pass each other in the halls we smile and nod, then continue on with the knowledge that this is crunch time. Everyone is needed; this is the way a democracy works. Remember the way Dr. Dean ends every Speech:

“The power to change the country is not in my hands, it’s in yours.”

I want you to ask yourselves what are you doing tomorrow. Do you have some time to volunteer? Could you call or talk to someone you may have missed? To people in the primary and caucus states you could call your buddies and make sure they can get down to the polling places and ask them to call their friends too.

It even comes with a photo for you ladies out there. At any rate, all I could think of was this scene from the Breakfast Club:

Bender: Hey, cherry, do you belong to the physics club?

Claire: Thats an academic club.

Bender: So?

Claire: So, academic clubs arent the same as other kinds of clubs.

Bender: But the dorks like him, they are. What do you guys do in your club?

Brian: In physics, well, we talk about physics… properties of physics.

Bender: So its sort of social. Demented and sad, but social, right?

I filed this under “General Stupidity” because I don’t have a “Laughably Pathetic” category.

(Via Matt Stinson)

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