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Good For Pat Sajak

by John Cole|  November 30, 20042:47 pm| 12 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

Pat Sajak has a question:

Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists. An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles? Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls for protection of artistic freedom? It

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by John Cole|  November 30, 20042:40 pm| 2 Comments

This post is in: Sports

Another week, another win, this one the ninth in a row for the team and for Big Ben, despite Roethlisberger having a marginal outing. This win was against a Reskins team who really isn’t as bad as their record might suggest. Their defense is solid. Just nothing there on offense, whatsoever. Final score: 16-7.

The man, once again, was city favorite Jerome Bettis.

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Final Wedding Summary

by John Cole|  November 30, 20042:34 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Wedding was beautiful, food was mediocre, bar was open. The last part should explain why you did not get an update earlier.

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Idiots in Our Midst

by John Cole|  November 30, 20042:28 pm| 34 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

What blithering idiots:

For the past four years on Black Friday, three Newark sisters have been trekking to the Christiana Mall to celebrate a global anticonsumerism movement called “Buy Nothing Day.”

This year, they got arrested after police asked the women to leave.

Anna White, 30, said she and her sisters Laura, 28, and Rachel, 25, and their friend Terri Carter went to the mall about 11:30 a.m. Friday on their annual junket to not shop.

They were dressed in Santa hats and white T-shirts printed with the words “NOTHING – What you’ve been looking for.” The back of the shirts read: “Ask me about NOTHING.”

This is what modern idiot liberals look like:

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Notice the smug, self-satisfied grin.

They are against consumerism- which, in short, means they are against capitalism. And you know what happens when capitalism fails? We really screw up the environment. Prosperous, democratic, capitalist nations are the best stewards of the environment and always have been. Period. So stick that in your anti-consumerism pipe and smoke it, baby.

And before the flaming starts- I don’t know the exact 1st amendment specifics in thsi case, nor do I care. Anything that wipes that shit-eating grin of her face and causes a little difficulty for the flaming idiocy on display here, I will tolerate a little extra-constitutional behavior by the authorities.

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The Light of the Moon

by John Cole|  November 27, 20043:05 pm| 6 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

Islamofascist radicals, it seems, have finally overplayed their hand:

Dutch film “Stand Van De Maan,” which addresses increasing Islamic radicalism in Indonesia, won the top prize at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

The festival is billed as the world’s largest documentary festival, with more than 200 films shown over two weeks in Amsterdam theaters.

“Stand Van De Maan (Shape of the Moon),” directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, recorded the story of an Indonesian Christian woman who leaves Jakarta for the countryside to avoid growing unemployment and increasingly fundamentalist Islamic sentiment in the city.

The Islamofascists are beginning to wake the rest of the world, and people are beginning to recognize that the Israeli/Palestinian issue is just an excuse for their treachery.

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Rev Up the Rhetoric and the Smear Machines

by John Cole|  November 27, 20042:59 pm| 9 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics

For those of you, who, like me, were hoping for a long Holiday season before the start of politics as usual at the beginning of the New Year, forget it. Our hopes for a temporary respite have been dashed:

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who missed the Supreme Court’s November argument session while being treated for thyroid cancer, will be absent for the December session as well, the court announced on Friday.

Kathleen Arberg, the court’s public information officer, said Chief Justice Rehnquist was continuing to receive chemotherapy and radiation treatments as an outpatient and was meeting with his law clerks and court officials at his home. Ms. Arberg said she had no information on when the 80-year-old chief justice might return to the court.

If you thought Bork and Clarence Thomas were something, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Regardless who Bush nominates, the Atriettes and the like are going to go batshit loony. This is going to be ugly.

Mind you, this isn’t even Bush trying to appoint someone to replace a sitting liberal judge with a conservative. When that happens, it will be even worse.

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Amazon and Blogads

by John Cole|  November 27, 20042:50 pm| 1 Comment

This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance

Remember, if you want an easy way to support this site, click the Amazon link on this site before doing your shopping. There is one to the right, one right, one sown and to the left, and one right here:

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If you have something you want to advertise, you always have the option of purchasing blogads, and I will provide you with a free week for every week you purchase for purchases through the end of the year.

Of course there is always the Amazon Tip Jar, and the Amazon Wish List.

Finally, Paypal:


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