Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This blog will pay for itself.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

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

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Iraq Round-Up

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Once again, we have hosed the Kurds and appear to be tactily endorsing enshrining Sharia in the Constitution:

U.S. diplomats have conceded ground to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraq, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline to draft a constitution under intense U.S. pressure.

U.S. diplomats, who have insisted the constitution must enshrine ideals of equal rights and democracy, declined comment.

Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators all said there was accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had before.

But a secular Kurdish politician said Kurds opposed making Islam “the”, not “a”, main source of law — changing current wording — and subjecting all legislation to a religious test.

“We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi’ites,” he said. “It’s shocking. It doesn’t fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state … I can’t believe that’s what the Americans really want or what the American people want.”

Washington, with 140,000 troops still in Iraq, has insisted Iraqis are free to govern themselves but made clear it will not approve the kind of clerical rule seen in Shi’ite Iran, a state U.S. President George W. Bush describes as “evil”.

In other news, the military is still planning for the long haul:

The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq — well over 100,000 — for four more years, the Army’s top general said Saturday.

In an Associated Press interview, Gen. Peter Schoomaker said the Army is prepared for the ”worst case” in terms of the required level of troops in Iraq. He said the number could be adjusted lower if called for by slowing the force rotation or by shortening tours for soldiers.

Schoomaker said commanders in Iraq and others who are in the chain of command will decide how many troops will be needed next year and beyond. His responsibility is to provide them, trained and equipped.

Although, after reading the first story, my initial reaction to the second piece is “Why bother? Just pull out and let the civil war start now rather than later.” Of course we can’t, but…

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Buchanan’s Mind

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Someone passed along this piece about Supreme Court nominations by Pat Buchanan, in which he seems to realize that he hates the left more than he hates the Republican party- even the warsome, meddlesome, jew-loving neocons included:

The Left gets it, but many Bush Republicans still don’t. They don’t like moral issues, and they don’t enlist in culture wars. But as the Left has turned the Supreme Court into a judicial tyranny more powerful than the president or Congress in deciding social and moral questions, Republicans have two choices: they can fight the Judges War, or they can lose the war.

Neutrality—a Bush choice of a non-controversial justice—will be, and will be seen by the president’s friends and enemies alike as a stacking of arms, a surrender, a cowardly retreat in the Culture War.

The Judges War is about Bush’s legacy and America’s future. No issue is more crucial. Whether America is kept safe for Christianity is more important than whether Iraq is made safe for democracy.

“Making America safe for Chrstianity, one justice at a time!” It has a ring to it, Pat! Nutty bastard.

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Fueling Idiocy

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Gas prices are up, so, of course, politicians feel the need to ‘Do Something!’ (via Drudge):

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Friday said the Bush administration should require U.S. oil companies to disclose their fuel pricing policies and production costs.

In a letter to the White House, Reid also said the Federal Trade Commission should investigate instances where a state’s retail prices rise 20 percent in any given week “to determine if the price of gasoline is being artificially manipulated.”

Past FTC probes into U.S. oil company pricing policies have found no sign of abuse.

“This one has already being done,” White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. “The FTC and the Justice Department have been keenly watching for this type of activity for the past two years.”

Who will be the first to call for a release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? I guess Kerry. This, btw, is just silliness:

Separately, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said the White House should ask oil companies for a voluntary, temporarily freeze on prices that they charge gasoline distributors.

Because, after all, the appropriate solution for a shortage of cheap gasoline is to stop the market forces which reward conservation.

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Hunh?

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Someone break this down for me:

Meanwhile, as usual, Limbaugh’s been busy quoting other people out of context. He listed me by name alongside other so-called traitors who are rooting for the defeat of American troops in Iraq, because I said Sheehan’s success gave war opponents “reason to be optimistic about the administration’s unraveling in Iraq.” From that he concluded I was “rooting for the administration’s unraveling in Iraq … that’s exactly what they’re doing! They are actively urging our defeat!” (Thanks to Media Matters for the transcript.)

Let me break it down for Limbaugh, and for his allies like Washington Times columnist Frank Gaffney, whom I debated Tuesday night on the “News Hour With Jim Lehrer” (you can watch it here): I’m not rooting for the defeat of our troops. When I hail the administration’s “unraveling,” as the piece made clear, I’m referring to the unraveling of public support for the war, which is tied to the unraveling of the administration’s ever-shifting stories about why we went to war — some call them lies — and now, the unraveling of its claims about what we’re fighting for. No longer are we promised a democratic Iraq — my piece linked to a Washington Post article in which unnamed administration officials confessed that the best we can expect in Iraq is some sort of Islamic republic. That’s quite an unraveling.

The way I read that, it says ‘I’m not rooting for a loss in Iraq, I am just giddy about the prospect of domestic political gain that comes with a loss in Iraq.’

Am I misreading that?

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Only One James Bond

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More Judge Roberts memos released, including him (almost obsessively) ripping into Michael Jackson, and this statement:

“I am . . . somewhat troubled by the absence of a consistent policy governing our willingness to permit the President to participate in these private, commercial tributes. . . . I think we are seeing evidence of what we often say will happen when we deny requests for Presidential endorsements of charitable efforts: once you do one it becomes impossible to turn down countless others. I know there’s only one John Wayne — but there’s only one Bob Hope, James Bond, Bing Crosby, etc. etc. etc.”

Clearly he was talking abuot Sean Connery, and not those other posers.

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Evening Wear

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The Instapundit also links to this catalog of Saudi swimwear for women.

When I saw it, all I could think of were those great Wendy’s commercials from years ago, where the stocky woman was modeling Soviet clothing, and it was the same outfit for every season, but with some small change. Does anyone remember the commercial I am talking about?

*** Update ***

Here is the commercial. Still funny.

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