Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

T R E 4 5 O N

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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Not Again, James…

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It looks like papa’s got a a brand new bag. Again.:

James Brown was arrested today on a domestic violence charge after allegedly pushing his wife to the floor during an argument at the couple’s South Carolina home. The 70-year-old singer was nabbed by deputies with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office who responded to a 911 call apparently placed by 33-year-old Tommie Rea Brown. The woman suffered “scratches and bruises to her right arm and hip” during the bedroom dispute, according to investigators. Brown, who has a well-known history of arrests and bizarre behavior, was booked into the local lockup, where the below mug shot was taken. Last July, Brown took out an ad in “Variety” to announce that he and his wife had made a “mutual show business decision” to “go their separate ways.” It is unclear whether that anticipated separation and/or divorce has occurred.

The mug shot is priceless.

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Democrat Talking Points

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Will the Hutton Report and the Kay Statements slow down the Democratic talking points? It should:

Lord Hutton said that the central 45-minute claim contained in Mr Gilligan’s report could be proved to be wrong in future, but his allegation that the government knew it was wrong when the dossier was published was “unfounded” because intelligence chiefs did believe the source from which it came was reliable.

He described Mr Gilligan’s report as a “grave allegation” and a slur on the government’s integrity.

Mr Blair arrived in the Commons chamber soon afterwards, to a roar of support from his own backbenchers. He was cheered again as he rose to speak.

And then there is this:

In essence, Dr. Kay concludes that while Saddam never ceased trying to build sophisticated WMDs, he probably did not succeed. But Saddam himself probably didn’t know that because his scientists were lying to him and stealing much of the money he gave them.

More specifically, Dr. Kay says it is clear Saddam was attempting to develop nuclear weapons as late as 2001, but his scientists never got as far as Iran did, nor as far as we now know–to our astonishment–that Libya did.

Dr. Kay adds that Saddam was actively working to produce a biological weapon using the poison ricin right up until the American invasion last spring.

But as the CIA underestimated Saddam’s nuclear-weapons program prior to 1991 and Libya’s nuclear program prior to this year, so the CIA overestimated Saddam’s progress toward developing and amassing WMDs prior to 2003. This, Dr. Kay believes, is the result of U.S. intelligence relying on satellites, electronic eavesdropping, exiles, and U.N. inspectors, and failing to put agents in place within the Baathist regime.

Some people will misrepresent the complex reality that Dr. Kay has described. Some people will say that Saddam never had WMD, had no intention to build them and was never a threat.

But Dr. Kay knows what his work shows. “We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq,” he says. “And now we know that there was little control over Iraq’s weapons capabilities. I think it shows that Iraq was a very dangerous place. The country had the technology, the ability to produce, and there were terrorist groups passing through the country–and no central control.”

Don’t expect this to slow down the partisan catcalls (‘Bush lied- People Died,’ or ‘Seventeeen words,’ or my personal favorite because they are too damned cowardly to call him a liar- ‘Bush misled the country into war.’, especially considering that I heard Kerry last night making this a centerpiece of his campaign. Of course, the facts don’t matter- the election is what matters. And of course, we all know that when matters of foreign affairs and national security get in the way o a domestic election, the Democrats are not concerned with facts. Some might classify their spin as ‘truthesque.’

(via the Instapundit)

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New Hampshire

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I never thought I would say this, but right now I am just so burnt out on politics I didn’t even watch the NH Primary coverage. I see that Kerry won by large numbers, so here is my quick take on the candidates so far:

1.) Kerry– He won by a convincing margin, so congratulations are in order. I would post some of he things I don’t like about him, but it is so hard to take shots at him while he looks so cozy wrapped up in the American flag. Did you know that he was a VietNam veteran?

2.) Dean– Despite losing his second primary in a row, the Dean camp declared victory. I guess this is good news for the Panthers and the Patriots, who meet Sunday in the Super Bowl. Guess what, guys! No matter the outcome, you are both winners.

3.) Edwards– Probably the best candidate in the race right now, he seems to still be tied with Clark for third place. Edwards’s staple stump speech for the past month has been the ‘Two Americas’ schtick that seems to impress everyone so much. If he intends to be the Democratic nominee in 2004, one of these Americas better start voting for him. I guess he can take some consolation in the fact that if he does pull this out in the long run, the Northern Democrats will vote for a southerner in the General Election (see Clinton, Bill). The real trick will be for Kerry to get the south to vote for him, should he win.

4.) Clark– DOA. Skipped the Iowa cacus, and the best he could do is come in third or tied for third (or perhaps fourth- the numbers are not in yet). This guy is a loser, a crackpot, and a liar, and even with the Clinton lackeys (including the despicable Chris Lehane) and money machine, he is coming up short. Also, I have noticed he looks remarkably similar to someone from the past. You make the call:

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Heaven’s Gate Leader Marshall Applewhite

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Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark

Both of these men, I might note, are not going to take their followers anywhere.

5.) Al Sharpton– It says alot about the Democratic party that this race-baiting huckster is even allowed on stage, let alone taken seriously. Unfortunately, none of what it says about Democrats is any good. Therefore, I officially endorse Al Sharpton.

6.) Dennis Kucinich– Think of someone with as much chance as Al Sharpton to become the next President, but think skinny, white, and vegan.

Thus concludes my NH Primary Coverage for 2004.

*** Update ***

It has been brought to my attention that I forgot to mention Joe Lieberman. I guess I share something in common with the voters of New Hampshire.

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Worth Cash Money

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I would pay to see these two in a deathmatch:

The Democratic Party’s official talk radio host got violent yesterday in an altercation he described as an effort to protect free speech.

Attending a Howard Dean rally in New Hampshire, unfunny funnyman Al Franken physically assaulted a heckler in the crowd, wrestling him to the ground in a bid to silence him.

“I got down low and took his legs out,” Franken boasted to the New York Post afterward.

The altercation was witnessed by NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, who called Franken’s antics “unbelievable.”

“One of the Lyndon LaRouche guys got up and started screaming and yelling,” Russert told radioman Don Imus Tuesday morning.

“The press guy for Dean tried to grab onto him and remove him and he couldn’t do it. All of a sudden, Al Franken jumped out of the media gallery, ran down and grabbed this guy on the leg and started wrestling him to the ground.

“It was unbelievable. He was really into it,” the NBC News star said.

Franken vs. a LaRouchite!

I guess I would be forced to just root for injuries.

*** Update ***

Oh, Goodie! There is more to the story.

You know, I can’t help thinking that if Dennis Miller tackled a heckler at a Bush rally, it would take about 8 minutes before Dave Neiwer added another chapter to his ‘All Republicans are Fascistic’ tome. INstead, the left seems to be reacting to this with glee.

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I Hope He is Kidding

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Maybe Jim Cappozalalphabet is joking:

Who, exactly, is “Wonkette,” the scheming parvenu wannabe blogger who is saying such awful things about the indispensable Media Whores Online?

The despicable cretin that goes by the name “Wonkette,” in writing about MWO says this, while referring to the latest disgraceful behavior of right-wing mouthpiece and self-styled media critic Howard Kurtz as a scare-quoted “scandal“:

There have been reader inquiries as to the reliability of Media Whores Online as a news source for the Kurtz item below. Here’s our take: They are not reliable at all. Repeat: Not reliable at all. Somewhere below Drudge and above a Ouija board. More politically motivated than either.

Gosh, just when “Wonkette” was raising her profile by, among other things, absurdly offering others to, of all selfish and greedy things, “buy a link” from her disreputably Andy-Grove-esque gossip column, it’s time for her to go away. To slither into the slime from which she arose, to die, at least in her public “persona,” an ignored and ignominious death.

I’ve only done this once before, but I’m going to do it again. If you link to “Wonkette” through your blogroll you cannot and will not enjoy, for what that might be worth, a link from The Rittenhouse Review.

You can’t spell obnoxious, self-important liberal without the letters ‘Rittenhouse.’ Well- you can, but I was too busy looking up ‘parvenu’ to think of something witty and true. At any rate, get over yourself. I used to read Rittenhouse- I thought he was clever, and I like sarcasm and good writing. I even donated the last time he needed help financially.

At any rate, Jim, I don’t remember signing up for ‘Net Nanny,’ but do me a favor, if you would. When you finish checking out the other billion and a half websites out there, please let me know which ones I may feel free to link to and which ones are just so horrifying to you that they will just burn my eyes on contact.

I regret not having the Rittenhouse Review in my permalinks- it makes it impossible for me to enjoy de-linking it.

Gary Farber has some fun with Mr. Overly Self-Important.

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Fan Mail

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This may be the best piece of fan e-mail I have ever recieved:

what gives you the ability to pontificate about current events in such a
droll and uninteresting fashion? i bet you are from california. you are
very self impressed, are you not? your writing is like literary manure
i.e. it stinks.

just thought i would let you know

James Rippner

I almost pissed myself laughing. Then I took his email address and signed him up for some viagra newsletters and some impotence self-help groups.

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I Don’t Know

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Several people have asked me if now that I am done defending the administration, it means I will not vote for them. Short answer- I don’t know.

I have no misconception that the Democrats (in particular this current crop) would be any better with fiscal issues, yet I refuse to let this administration and Karl Rove treat me the way the Democratic party treats African-American voters. I DO have options. I have a lot in common with moderate to conservative Demorats, and I would probably feel most comfortable in a little L libertarian party, were that a viable option.

The simple fact of the matter is that I voted for Bush/Cheney in 2000, and right now I feel like I have been sold down the river when it comes to this hideous spending. The Farm Bill? The Education Bill? Medicare prescription drug plan? Marriage Promotion? Drug Testing in Schools? Faith Based Initiatives?

You know, when Bill Clinton pandered, he at least had the decency to be straight forward about it. And, I might add, Bill Clinton, despite what you may think his role was in the process, did sign a balanced budget at the end of the day. Chew on that, Mr. Delay.

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