Wow, those guys are good. A "mystery blogger" having nothing at all to do with CREW or the HRC has established a StopSexualPredatorSladeGorton, and promises that he'll soon publish incriminating IM's from the former senator.

So, you know, you can forget completely about the strong economy, or the threat of terrorism. There are bigger issues.

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Highest pblic perceptions on the economy in a year, according to an ARG poll.

Sounds like it's time to call another Republican a faggit.

But who? Who's up next in the left's Pin The Tail On The Homo game?

I know no one's asking me for suggestions, but let me just toss out former Washington Senator Slade Gorton.

Come on. You know he's at least thought about it.

True, he's not in elective politics anymore, but how about all those years the GOP let him run rampant in his blazing faggotry, raping pages in the congressional cloak room?

Can we just give the GOP a pass on that?

Slade Gorton

Wrong on national security. Wrong on forcible gay sodomy.

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Easily beating cancer survivor and all-time-most-dominant cyclist Lance Armstrong.

I guess manliness is mostly determined by the heft of one's jaw.

George Clooney is the No. 1 man's man, according to a list compiled by AskMen.com.

The Oscar winner tops the Web site's list of what it calls the 49 best representatives of the male gender. Rap mogul Jay-Z, adventurer-entrepreneur Richard Branson, cyclist Lance Armstrong and designer Tom Ford make up the rest of the top five, in order.

Designer Tom Ford? Okay. Sewing a darling frock is pretty damn manly, I admit.

Strangely absent from the list is fitness guru Richard Simmons.

The list was culled from nominations submitted by readers of the online magazine, who were asked to name the top "ambassadors of male-kind." Voters were asked to look for traits such as integrity, charisma and intelligence.

But not, apparently, actual manliness.

...

Bill Clinton ranked 10th and Tiger Woods 13th. ...

Rocker Bono was 27th, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was 29th and director Martin Scorsese was 46th. "Entourage" star Jeremy Piven ranked 49th.

Sgt. Paul R. Smith, pothumously awarded the Medal of Honor in Iraq, was briefly considered, but was judged deficient in the categories of "Young Hollywood Arrivistes Seduced" as well as "Guest Starring Roles on Facts of Life."

"Sergeant Smith did give his live valiantly in the cause of defending freedom, and saving his fellow soldiers," an AskMen spokesfemme said. "And I suppose that's, you know, kind of manly, if that's your idea of manly. But we wanted a diverse selection of representatives of Man-Kind, including A-list celebrities, B-list celebrities, and even a few C-list celebrities. When push comes to shove, being dead really reduces your Q-Rating [an industry guage of a celebrity's popularity and likability]."

The list was compiled by a group of men deemed to be the most qualified to judge manliness, including tabloid reporters, pop-culture magazine writers, non-entities who appear exclusively on VH-1's various Hey, Remember What Just Happened Ten Minutes Ago? shows, and the mystery "blogger" from StopSexualPredators.

In related news, America is doomed.

Thanks to yls.

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...over whether it's just as bad for an adult (kinda hot) woman to have sex with an underage boy as it would be for a male adult to have sex with a young girl.

Niiiicccce.

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In a positive way. Talking about Tim Robbins' new film, Rosie offers up a pro-terrorist apologia that even Tim Robbins is wise enough to walk away from.

Allah will have the video soon, but here's the idiot babbling, and maybe about to get herself fired:

ROSIE O'DONNEL: They [the South African police tasked with cracking down on the ANC] were seeking out "terrorists," which is what they called the people in South Africa, who actually lived there, who were the majority, the blacks in South Africa, who were trying to fight for their own civil rights, were called "terrorists."

And the government was allowed to arrest them at will and interrogate them, no matter what they did, just on the suspicion, very similar today to what we have in the United States, thanks to the Patriot Act.

[Survivor Chick objects.]

TIM ROBBINS: Well they did do which was similar was that they through out due process, the right to an attorney--

ROSIE: Habeas corpus.

ROBBINS: And they allowed the government, and actually required people like this guy I played, to torture people. So what it does to the individual is that it puts an incredible moral burden on the agent of the government, the solidier or the policeman--

ROSIE: Lyddie England.

At this point Robbins distances himself from Rosie's glib stupidity and notes the ANC was fighting for genuine basic human rights and that they didn't target civilians. (Which isn't true, but he's trying to walk away from Rosie's trying to make his movie into a pro-bin Ladin morality play.)

Video Update: Well, I can't upload video off the TV, but this is pretty close to a dramatic reenactment of Rosie's latest moronburst.

The Real Video: Hot off Allah's USB link Hot Air.

Mmmmm... I love the smell of fresh-baked stupd.

You know how stupid this landwhale is? This is true-- she talked about this in an interview. I'm not making this up.

For her starting "stand-up act," all she did -- ALL she did -- was repeat Jerry Seinfeld bits that she had memorized verbatim off his records. Now, some people do stuff like that, but Rosie O'Donnell actually didn't know she wasn't supposed to do that. Other comics had to take her aside and tell her she simply could not go on stage and recite Jerry Seinfeld's act verbatim. And she didn't understand why-- she thought that's what all comics did.

Just memorize another comic's entire act, and parrot it.

That's how fucking stupid this bridge-troll is.

Eddie Murphy did something similar-- just repeating Richard Pryor bits -- but at the time Murphy was like 15 or something (he started out ridiculously young) and he knew damn well he wasn't supposed to do it. But, as he noted, he was just 15 -- what the hell else could he talk about? The only thing he knew about at 15 was taking a crap, and he didn't see how he could build an act around that.

Rosie O'Donnell was an adult woman at the time, and just figured that Jerry Seinfeld was getting "his" act from some other comedian. This Lumbering Scourge of Bear-Claws just didn't even grasp the concept of "creative invention" nor that of "plagiarism."

And who, ultimately, was making these bits up, that all other comedians simply stole?

She lacked the capacity to even imagine the question.

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Do we really need to see a report on this?
Yes. Yes we do.

By the time Sunday night comes around, it's all but over and that is when the panic sets in for many people.

"I think what most people experience are thoughts of dread," said psychotherapist Dr. David Wright, M.F.O. (Master of the Fucking Obvious). "Before going back to work they experience withdrawal behaviors, they don't enjoy their Sundays."

Wright said Sunday night stress is very common and it hits all walks of life.

"Really it's like having a six-day workweek because you spend the whole day thinking about going to work and dreading going to work and anticipating things happening at work that may be stressful," said Wright.

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Just....damn.

Our fighting men are the best men there are. If there are any among the lurkers today, please know that we love you, and that you inspire us to be better people.

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As they say, Fantasy Football (or Fantasy Baseball, etc.) is just Dungeons & Dragons for people who used to beat up people who played Dungeons & Dragons.

Fantasy Politics, on the other hand, is just Dungeons & Dragons for people who used to get beat up by people who played Dungeons & Dragons.

That said, I just drafted Heather Wilson (.332 with runners in scoring positions) and Joe Negron (six interceptions last season).

Please don't beat me up. I'm a bleeder.

Thanks to Warden.

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Looking at the Majority Watch map, and clicking on individual races, it looks like many Democrats lead by a fairly small margin -- four, six, or eight points in polls. Eight points is a decent-sized margin of victory in terms of actual votes -- but not in terms of polling.

A serious GOP GOTV campaign could erase those polling margins. It would be a narrow thing indeed -- to win, the GOP would need to hold all of its leaners, win all of the ties, win all eight of the Democratic-leaning contests, and then pick up five or so of the seats currently polling strongly Democratic -- but it could happen.

It's drawing to a backdoor inside straight, but such hands are occasionally made.

It's going to take social conservatives getting over their anger at the GOP for the Mark Foley scandal, fiscal conservatives getting over their anger over spending, and national-security conservatives getting over their frustration with Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, and simply vote for the lesser of two evils.

Not enthusiastically, but enthusiastically enough to wait in line for twenty minutes and pull a lever.

Unless there's a serious coming-home movement among dissatisfied members of the Reagan coalition, and soon, it's going to be bad. The choice is between a party which is somewhat incopetent and half-hearted about enacting policies you support, or a part that's more competent at enacting policies you oppose or even despise.

I'll take those moving clumsily towards my political goals rather than those moving deftly in the opposite direction any day of the week.

Michigan Voters-- Vote! Challenger Mike Bouchard has a decent shot at knocking off Debbie Stabenow and netting a GOP pick-up.

New Jersey and Maryland Voters, Too: Tom Kean is behind, but not insurmountably so.

Steele too. I'll give a special Ace of Spades "For the Greater Good of White Power" dispensation for voting for the brown person.

Besides -- how do we know Ben Cardin isn't brown too? Or Jewish? Or Asian, for that matter?

We can't be sure. Better not to take chances. It's better to vote for a brown person you know is brown than a possibly dangerous racial wildcard who might just be "passing" until he gets elected and pushes for his savage and/or crafty and scheming agenda.

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Does anyone press for untrammeled executive independence -- freedom from interference by other branches or the public, via voting?

Or for unrestricted legislative indepenence?

Of course not. And if the courts continue transforming into nothing more than a shadow legislature, why should they continue to have license and freedom from public opinion that would be considered dangerously undemocratic were the true political branches to enjoy them?

Scalia, during a panel Saturday on the judiciary sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation, dismissed the idea of judicial independence as an absolute virtue. He noted that dozens of states, since the mid-1800s, have chosen to let citizens elect their judges.

"You talk about independence as though it is unquestionably and unqualifiably a good thing," Scalia said. "It may not be. It depends on what your courts are doing."

He added, "The more your courts become policymakers, the less sense it makes to have them entirely independent."

He continues:

"Take the abortion issue," he said. "Whichever side wins, in the courts, the other side feels cheated. I mean, you know, there's something to be said for both sides."

"The court could have said, 'No, thank you.' The court could have said, you know, 'There is nothing in the Constitution on the abortion issue for either side,' " Scalia said. "It could have said the same thing about suicide, it could have said the same thing about . . . all the social issues the courts are now taking."

Scalia said that in the past, courts did not decide social issues. "It is part of the new philosophy of the Constitution," he said. "And when you push the courts into that, and when they leap into it, they make themselves politically controversial. And that's what places their independence at risk."

And finally:

Later, Scalia observed, "It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional."

Judges have lost their ability to distinguish from what is permissible, but in their opinion ill-advised or not preferable, from what is truly impermissible under the Constitution. Many of them feel entirely unshackled from previous notions judicial self-restraint, and simply vote on matters precisely as they would if they were a legislator.

With one big difference -- a legislator's opinion can be overturned by the legislature. When judges claim this or that is "unconstituitonal," it cannot be overturned by anone at all, except by the very difficult amendment process.

Why should it be that it takes the people and their elected represenatives years and millions of votes to enact their constitutional preferences, but five (or even two) judges can impose their political prefences at their whim?

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