Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

In after Baud. Damn.

This fight is for everything.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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

How stupid are these people?

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Congrats To Don Surber

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Props to WV Blogger Don Surber, who made the Opinion Journal’s Best of the Web today:

West Virginia’s Sen. Robert Byrd “is running scared,” according to blogger Don Surber, a Mountain State journalist. Last week, as Surber noted, the National Republican Senatorial Committee began airing anti-Byrd ads, and now Byrd is airing back. Surber transcribes the Byrd ad:

Announcer: Out-of-state special interests are running false attack ads against our Sen. Robert Byrd. Their agenda: privatize social security and tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas.

Man in blue shirt: I’m Sgt. Jared Towner and I served in Iraq. Sen. Byrd has provided for us, bringing jobs to West Virginia, funding schools and hospitals, protecting our jobs and supporting our troops.

Byrd: I’m Robert Byrd. I approved this ad because the people of West Virginia deserve the truth.

Noting that Byrd “never was re-elected by less than 30 percent,” Surber sees the early ad as a show of weakness: “West Virginia may have its first truly contest Senate race in 22 years.”

Good show.

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Blast From The Past

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Jessica Lynch will be attending WVU this fall:

Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch will begin on-campus classes this fall at West Virginia University, the school said yesterday.

Lynch announced in March that she was beginning online courses at WVU and that she hoped to become an elementary school teacher.

“WVU is very pleased to be able to assist her in that pursuit,” school spokeswoman Becky Lofstead said yesterday, “and proud to call Jessica Lynch a Mountaineer.”

Lynch, a native of Palestine, West Virginia, is enrolled in the College of Human Resources and Education.

Former Gov. Bob Wise promised Lynch that the state would pay for her education at any West Virginia public college or university after her April 1, 2003, rescue from an Iraqi hospital.

Lynch, a former Army supply clerk, became one of the most visible faces of the Iraq war when she was rescued from an Iraqi hospital on April 1, 2003. Her convoy was attacked after taking a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah. Eleven American soldiers were killed and six, including Lynch, were captured.

Is it just me, or does it feel like the whole Jessica Lynch saga took place decades ago? At any rate, Lynch looks good:

In other West Virginia news, Don Surber has an update on the Byrd commercials we discussed yesterday. Don thinks Byrd is ‘running scared,’ but I think it is a little too early to make such claims.

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Carnival of the RINOS

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I forgot to submit something this week, but the RINO festival is up at All Things Jennifer. I haven’t had time to check it out yet, but I am sure there is something interesting there for everyone.

Almost forgot- The Bills suck, Jennifer. Go Steelers!

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Don’t miss the Robert C. Byrd* Carnival of the Hillbillies, either.

*Byrd, as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, funnelled so much money the state that virtually everything is named after him. Thus, it is only fitting that we name the weekly WV blogger digest after him.

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Home Products

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I need a new set of knives, as I almost lopped my finger off with a semi-dull knife. What do you all think of these?

What knive sets would you recommend?

Aso, which is better. The Ionic Breeze, or the Blue Air?

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OK. Unless George Soros and Donald Trump read this website, and decide to hit the tip jar to the tune of $1800.00, I think we can rule out the speculation about me purchasing a set of CutCo knives.

AIN’T… GONNA… HAPPEN…

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The Daily Flame Thread

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Rather than search the web for new Plame stories, I offer you this from yesterday’s Cleland thread:

Democrats just can’t take their own medicine. For 5 years they have called Bush Hitler, Chimp, Shrub and who knows what else. NAACP ads depicted Bush as responsible for an African American being chained and dragged from a pick-up truck. Condoleeza Rice is Aunt Jemima, Colen Powell is Uncle Tom and the Vice President…you don’t want to know. Howard Dean “hates” Republicans, and John Edwards proclaimed that if Kerry is elected Christopher Reeves would’nt have had to die. They, and their enablers in the media, publish false douments about Bush’s National Guard service (a story CBS admitted to be working on for five years!), call Bush a liar for over a year by correctly stating that Saddam was pursuing the purchase of Yellowcake in Africa and carried the story of Abu Gharaib on the front page of the NY Times for ever and ever.

Oh, wait, I forgot HALLIBURTN, HALLIBURTON and HALLIBURTON.

Then they suddenly take up righteous indignation over a Georgia Senatorial Campaign?

Have at each other.

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I should probably add, the reason I do this is so you have a place to unload on each other. I have received several complaints (and I am not singling people out, as I don’t read all the comments- I try, really) about personal attacks and unnecessary harshness in the comments, and I don’t want to be in the habit of policing the comments section, yet I don’t want to drive people away.

So, from now on, flame away in the designated zones, but try to keep it polite and somewhat pleasant in the other comments sections. If you are in another thread, and want to be rude or find it impossible to control yourselves, come to the designated zone, write your piece, and then link to it in the other thread. People can then ignore it and still participate in the comments.

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