Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

No one could have predicted…

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Fight them, without becoming them!

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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What the hell is wrong with people:

A hot-button film believed by some to be anti-Bush is getting multiple viewings at a local polling place the week before the election, NewsChannel5 reported.

The library is a polling place on Nov. 2 and the controversial movie critical of President George W. Bush is set to air three times the weekend before the election.

“They just got a one-mill levy passed. Taxpayers, like it or not, are paying for Michael Moore to spread his rhetoric at an official polling site two days before an election — in a key state,” Pengov said.

Librarian Debby Kressa said she is surprised by the complaints.

Kressa said the move came in and she just wanted to accommodate all the people on a waiting list to sign the movie out, so she thought it would be a good idea to show the film in the library’s movie room.

The library posted an announcement that “Farenhype 9/11” will be aired as well. Officials are hoping that this will provide political balance for airing “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Pengov said because the library is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization he will go to court next week to try to stop the library from showing the movie at a polling site.

I am beginning to get really disturbed by the efforts of those on the left and the right who are attempting tostifle speech they do not like. This is a public library that also happens to be a polling place. If the public library has a controversial film it wants to show, fine. Cripes- they are even acknowledging the film is controversial and trying to show some balance by showing the rebuttal- Fahrenhype.

If our public libraries are not free to show controversial material, whether it be conservative, liberal, marxist, communist, socialist, nazi, or whatever, where can we expect or receive an airing of ideas? College campuses are already verboten thanks to the PC police. This is really disturbing- especially in the same week that the other side of the political spectrum is trying to use the power of government to shut down what private corporations air (Sinclair).

Thank goodness for the internet, at least.

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A Rare Moment of Agreement

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I agree with Matt:

It never gets any play in the West, because unlike AIDS pretty much no one in this country suffers from it, but malaria kills an awful lot of people every year, primarily in Africa. What’s more, the need to treat malaria is a non-trivial source of new HIV infections through the blood transfusion process. In that light, the news that a functioning malaria vaccine has been discovered counts as some very, very, very good news. If you read the story, you’ll see that this isn’t exactly the most foolproof vaccine science has ever come up with, but it could still save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. I assume, in addition, that progressing from this point toward a more effective vaccine is probably a less challenging endeavor than coming up with something in the first place.

Of course, there is one thing that Matt fails to mention- there already is an effective way to handle malaira. it is cheap, effective, and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. What is this miracle?

Why, DDT, of course.

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Our Allies

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Mark Kleiman is but one of many Democrats who gleefully noted that Germany may be re-thinking involvement in Iraq should Kerry win in November, so it is probably unfiar to single him out. But what the hell- I am tired of being fair:

The idea that listening to what other people want might lead them to cooperate with us is hoplessly naive. There’s no way to get the allies who have refused to help us in Iraq so far to help us from now on.

Here’s the proof.

Except, as always, Peter Struck was talking out of his ass:

The Government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder played down the remarks, made by German Defence Minister Peter Struck in a newspaper interview and in a briefing to reporters at a Nato defence ministers summit in Romania.

“There will be no German soldiers sent to Iraq. That will not change,” a Government spokesman said.

Why the Democrats continue to think thatas soon as Kerry is elected France, China, Russia, and Germany will all become willing to start sending troops to Iraq and receiving coffins draped with a flag of a different color is beyond me. It just isn’t going to happen.

Furthermore, I fail to understand why Democrats continue to think that the average American voter is going to be impressed or moved by obvious attempts by our overseas counterparts to impact elections.

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I Beg to Differ

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Jack O’Toole takes me to task for this post in which I called Elizabeth Edwards a ‘bitch’ for her obnoxious and offensive comments:

I’ve made this point before, but I’m going to do so again this morning, if only for the purpose of calling John Cole to account for his use of an insulting and ungentlemanly term to describe Elizabeth Edwards.

For the record, John, Mary Cheney is not only an official employee of BC04, she’s also a former board member of the Republican Unity Coalition (a gay rights organization) and the one-time director of gay and lesbian outreach for the Coors Brewing Co. Moreover, according to the AP, she actively “helped the GOP recruit gay voters during the 2002 midterm elections.” In other words, complaining about her being described in public as a lesbian makes about as much sense as, say, objecting to Tom Brokaw’s being “outed” as an anchorman; her sexual identity is nothing less than an elemental part of who she is and what she does for a living. And branding Elizabeth Edwards a ‘bitch’ for pointing that out is simply unacceptable.

Except that is not why I called Elizabeth Edwards a bitch at all. Elizabeth Edwards was not merely pinting out that Mary Cheney is a lesbian- that is already well-dcoumented and in the public record. In fact, it is so well documented that both John Edwards and John Kerry felt it necessary to discuss in NATIONAL DEBATES.

What Mrs. Edwards said was far more obnoxious- she insinuated that Dick and Lynne Cheney are somehow ‘ashamed’ of their daughter and her sexual orientation:

I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter’s sexual preferences.

I stand by my statement, as Elizabeth Edwards’ statement was obnoxious, offensive, and, oh, by the way, way off the mark:

The vice president had broken with his earlier circumspection regarding Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation when he addressed the gay-marriage issue in a meeting with voters in August. Cheney said marriage should be a state issue, a rare disagreement with Bush administration policy.

“Lynne and I have a gay daughter, we have two daughters, and we have enormous pride in both of them,” Cheney said then.

Cheney reiterated his gay-marriage position in his vice presidential debate last week with Democratic Sen. John Edwards, who responded by saluting the Cheneys for a willingness to talk about their daughter and “embrace her.”

Cheney thanked Edwards for his “kind words,” but privately, Bush campaign officials were annoyed and considered the comment inappropriate.

Not only is Cheney on record as having stated his enormous pride in his daughter, but Elizabeth’s husband John ackowledged as much two weeks ago.

I suggest that Jack re-read Mrs. Edwards’ statement.

Also, I really can’t believe the Democrat reaction (or non-reaction) about this. If Republicans had done what Kerry and Edwards have done by frequently invoking the name of the vice-President’s daughter in debates, every democrat out there would be screaming that the Republicans are gay-baiting. Trying to assert that the Democratic response would have been different from what I have described is absurd.

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Seriously, folks. Calling Oliver fat in the arguments does not refute his point in any way, meaningful or not, and just makes you look like small, petulant nuisances. Knock it off.

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Here We Go Again

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I am sure this surprises approximately no one:

The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation — even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: “If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a ‘pre-emptive strike.'”

Here is an image of the front page.

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