Ha!

Seriously, though. Santorum will do anything to look like a hero, with his poll numbers sagging. What's more unbelievable is that the wingers still believe that this is a significant story, despite the fact that it was debunked by FOX NEWS! (via News Hounds)

I'm pissed. Blogger is all fucked up. I wrote a long-assed post on reviewing The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, and it got lost on the internets. Dammit.

Where I come from, they call them heroes

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I read the text of one of the documents found in Zarqawi's stronghold via USA Today (the only newspaper with the guts to tell it like it is: that everything is just fine -- Homer J. Simpson). Pretty boring, really. The interesting part comes at the end, when the document discusses the plan for provoking war between the US and Iran:

The question remains, how to draw the Americans into fighting a war against Iran? It is not known whether American is serious in its animosity towards Iran, because of the big support Iran is offering to America in its war in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Hence, it is necessary first to exaggerate the Iranian danger and to convince America and the west in general, of the real danger coming from Iran, and this would be done by the following:
1. By disseminating threatening messages against American interests and the American people and attribute them to a Shi'a Iranian side.
2. By executing operations of kidnapping hostages and implicating the Shi'a Iranian
side.
3. By advertising that Iran has chemical and nuclear weapons and is threatening the west with these weapons.
4. By executing exploding operations in the west and accusing Iran by planting Iranian Shi'a fingerprints and evidence.
5. By declaring the existence of a relationship between Iran and terrorist groups (as termed by the Americans).
6. By disseminating bogus messages about confessions showing that Iran is in possession of weapons of mass destruction or that there are attempts by the Iranian intelligence to undertake terrorist operations in America and the west and against western interests.

(emphasis added by me)

Funny, but I think some of those look vaguely familiar... (As an aside: Do Islamic terrorists really use the term "bogus?")

Light blogging today - I think I've got a cold or something.

WTF is Rick Santorum wearing?




















Please, Pennsylvania, vote this whackjob out of office in November...

This is teh stupid.

While it might seem as though this would make police officers who are conducting a search safer, by not requiring them to give a warning to possible criminals that are inside a house they are about to raid, I have my doubts. I worry that it will actually make both police and citizens less safe, because under the previous standard, at least ordinary citizens, who were not engaged in criminal activity, would have known who was entering their homes. If someone came bursting through my front door without knocking, I'd be both pissed and scared, and if I had a weapon close by, I would be tempted to use it first and ask questions later. If you think that the police don't never make no mistakes, this nugget was embedded in a National Review Online article about the William Jefferson investigation:

In fact, last week, just as Rep. Sensenbrenner was scheduling this week’s hearings, a SWAT team in Dodgeville, Wisconsin broke open a window, rolled in a diversionary grenade, and raided an innocent couple’s home in full battle gear. The terrified occupants were handcuffed at gunpoint before police realized they had struck the wrong apartment. Last December, a Pewaukee, Wisconsin SWAT team made a similar mistake, violently breaking into the home of retired lawyer H. Victor Buerosse. That’s Sensenbrenner’s home district. Bueorosse grew understandably furious when he learned that the real target of the raid, his neighbor, was suspected of no more than the recreational use of marijuana.

Un-Freaking-Believable. But wait, it gets worse:

In October 2000, a black-clad SWAT team mistakenly raided the home of Wendy and Jesus Olveda and their three-year-old daughter Zena. Agents forced their way into the family’s home, and pushed the couple down to the floor at gunpoint with boots to their necks while the terrified little girl looked on. When police realized they had the wrong address, they left without explanation. That raid came five years after another botched raid in which police shot and killed Wisconsin resident Scott Bryant in front of his eight-year-old son.

Hell in a Handbasket. That's where we're going...

The sad state of discourse in America (apologies for the source).

As if I really wanted to know about Ann's sex life, or lack thereof... Way to ask the hard questions, Jay!

Leno asked why Coulter used the term "broads" to refer to the widows in her book, while calling them "women" during a previous television appearance. "Men use the word 'broads' all the time to talk about women," Coulter responded. "If we're getting to that level of parsing my language, there will be no end to this."

Um, yeah...I know a lot of me who use the word "broad" in reference to women. Something tells me Ann has been watching this guy a little too much:


In fact, maybe we should open up an investigation to see how much she "borrowed" from Archie when she wrote her new "book!"

So I started this blog back in 2003 to discuss the war and other political events at the time. Unfortunately, I was in law school ath the time, and didn't have much time to devote to posting, so this blog remained empty. I promise to update more in the future - starting tomorrow, of course...

Operation "Bomb Their Ass and Steal Their Gas" is underway...Stay Tuned