Actually, I prefer my congressmen have a firm grip on the issues:

Two Democratic members of the San Diego City Council were quoted on the record at VoiceofOc.org making the allegation that DeMaio often polished his family jewels in a bathroom while at work. But a spokesman for DeMaio strongly denied the allegations to The Daily Caller on Friday.

Look, the more time this guy spends oiling the droid, the less time he has to implement incompentant or pernicious legislation. So it looks like win-win to me.

Update: And thanks to commenter 'Stan Marsh' for this highly appropriate video:
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You'd best be bringing it.

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He asks this in the wake of conservative praise for Ashton Kutcher's praise of hard work.

Here's the answer: Many liberals are in fact hard working. Top actors? Yeah, it's a competitive field. Some may have had things handed to them, but most worked hard.

So why is hard work a conservative value? Because leftists are too cowardly to transmit such wholesome, old-fashioned values. They often have those values, but feel that to tell people "You should work hard if you want to achieve anything" somehow betrays the Leftist Coalition, which is premised on the notion that All Rewards Are Unfair and Anyone Who Doesn't Have All That He Wants is a Victim of Exploitation By White Capitalists.

Why, to say people should work hard would be, in a way, "victim-blaming" and "victim-shaming"?

There's a certain amount of well-intentioned, and yet ugly, condescension here. Liberals who have achieved success know that success is almost impossible without a lot of hard work. But they don't typically say so, because, I think, they believe the average person* is incapable of such and will just feel burdened by expectations they can't meet if hard work and achievement are talked up as having some kind of link between them.

Better to just pretend it all happens by chance and there's no such thing as deserving success. That's a nice, false storyline that makes everyone feel good about themselves.

So, this is another case of liberals proclaiming something which they've been conditioned to proclaim, for political coalition purposes, which they know from their own personal experience simply is not true.

They have a lot of these. Their brains are full of things which they know are not true but they also know it is Expected of Them to regurgitate.

This is why no thinking man or woman can be a liberal, or, again, more accurately, a liberal who has given up truth for the leftist agitprop line.

The truth is too important. Apart from our life itself, there is nothing else as important.

Even freedom is less important. There is no freedom of thought without freedom to state, think, and believe the truth.

* And what is "average," anyway? Let me just postulate that celebrities -- people who are not just successful, but who have fans, and therefore are subject to a lot of gushing and ass-kissing, unlike most successful people -- tend to think they're a great deal more remarkable than they actually are.

I would further postulate this goes double for successful liberals (or, actually, leftists).

The average man has it within him to be anything but average. In fact, if you call the average average man average, he'll take it as an insult, and I don't blame me.

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Axelrod: this talk of impeaching a president is "way out of bounds."

Yes, because only a crazy party would vote on articles of impeachment against an unpopular president who they think is acting lawlessly.

Meanwhile, I guess this is something else we'll just have to ignore Because Freedom.

The head of a controversial organization that critics describe as anti-Semitic defended his activism and questioned the facts behind the Holocaust one day after former Rep. Ron ["Chelsea"] Paul was asked about participating in a conference organized by the group.

The Fatima Center, a “grassroots association of Catholic priests and lay people,” is hosting a conference in early September at which Paul will give the keynote address on September 11th. The organization has published articles claiming that Jews are attempting to undermine the Catholic Church on behalf of Satan and that “Zionist billionaires” are guilty of “financially raping” Russia’s people.

Father Nicholas Gruner, who runs the Fatima Center, rejected the allegations that his group was anti-Semitic in an interview with the Free Beacon on Friday.

“I object to the charges absolutely, no question about it,” Gruner said. “I am not anti-Semitic … I’m not against any particular people, race or nation because of their people, race or nation.”

However, Gruner added he is skeptical that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

“What exactly is Holocaust denial?” Bruner said. “Are we talking about the six million Jews that are alleged to been killed by Hitler?”

That.

Just answering your question. You said "What is Holocaust denial?" It was that, that next thing you just said, that thing about the alleged Holocaust.

That's Holocaust denial. That's what we mean.

So I guess that's cleared up. Go and sin no more.

Oh wait, you've got more? Well hang on, Sir, let me pull up a stool.

“A question that nobody has been able to answer for me, is how can you have six million die, and have 13 million left, when you only had 13 million to start with?” Bruner continued. “I think it’s impossible. But you know, I’m open-minded. I’ll listen to somebody who can prove it otherwise.”

Wow.

But, at least Doctor Paul is distancing himself from his fringe kook supporters.

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Paul blasted his opponents for engaging in “demagoguery” and “falsehoods”...

Or maybe not.

He's slated to speak on September 11th. And oh won't that be joyous.

Now, there is a good reason to doubt this reportage: Based on her name, the reporter, Alana Goodman, is probably An Jew. So: You know.

In on it. They're all in on it, of course.

Even Jerry Seinfeld.

Especially Jerry Seinfeld.

Stace McCain's coblogger wombat lists a bunch of key Space Opera books you might be interested in.

And speaking of RSM, the father of the #FreeKate lesbian cradle-robber girl is trying to get Stace's site shut down.

Stace has vowed vengeance, and in Gaelic to boot. You probably don't want to mess with him. When people start talking in a different language, it's always scary.

J'aimerai bien toujours Gerard Depardieu.

Well, it's sometimes scary, anyway.

There are some who say, despite claims to the contrary, that the man Bradley Manning is in fact a man named Bradley Manning. But these are Constructed Gender Deniers, obviously.

California students demanded to kneel before their principal. Yup, that's the way you breed future Servants of the State.

And, copies of The Chelsea Gurlz podcast are still available. Order soon before Chelsea-supplies run out.

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I saw it called "delusional."

Two quotes I can't verify: Someone on Twitter says Filner says he was forced out of office "by a lynch mob."

Second, I heard this, but I'm not sure I heard it.

But I think I heard Filner say, twice, that he was proud to have protected San Deigo from Seal Poop.

Yes, I swear I heard this, but I think maybe it was just my brain having a wonderful dream.

Update: Yes.

Status: TRUE.

Also true: Filner calls himself a victim.

BOB FILNER: [...] Now I have to caution the council about one thing, the city. I started my political career facing lynch mobs. I think we have just faced one here in San Diego. You are going to have to deal with that. A lynch mob mentality, rumors become allegations, allegations become facts, facts become evidence of sexual harassment which have led to demands of my resignation and recall. Not one allegation, members of the council, has been verified or proven in court. I have never sexually harassed anyone. But the hysteria that has been created and many of you helped defeat is the hysteria of a lynch mob. Now, as I said I faced lynch mobs many times when I was younger. No evidence was needed. The mob knew who was guilty. Who needed due process? Ladies and gentlemen, democracy needs due process. San Diego needs due process. Those of you in the media and politics who fed this hysteria, I think need to look at what you helped do because you have unleashed a monster. I think we will pay for this, a front to democracy for a long time. Now the hysteria plays into the hands of those who want a political coup. The removal of a democratically elected mayor purely by rumor.

Wow. He didn't just say it, he said it for four paragraphs.

He said "coup."

Video of that patch of his speech at the link.

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My computer wigged out and I did a double post.

Use this post for your Dream Journals and Imagineering.

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Indeed.

Some time back a horrifying series of racially-menacing crimes were committed at Oberlin College. The left was well and truly outraged.

But they turned out be another giganitc hoax so the left has nothing more to say about them.

Busted. Stone-cold busted. Just as I suspected, “progressive” pranksters at Oberlin College have been definitively unmasked as the perpetrators of phony campus “hate crimes” that scored international headlines in March. The blabbermouth academic administrators who helped fuel the hysteria are now running for cover.

The Associated Press, the New York Times, MSNBC, Yahoo News, and the Huffington Post were among the media outlets that trumpeted the story of supposed racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism run amok at my alma mater. Throughout the winter, anti-black and anti-gay graffiti, swastikas, and a shadowy figure in a “KKK hood” surfaced on the tiny campus outside Cleveland, Ohio. Black Entertainment Television News decried the hate outbreaks and a “KKK sighting.”

I'm omitting Michelle's recounting of previous racial hoaxes at Oberlin, simply because I can't quote everything. But do go over there, to NRO, to read the whole thing.

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The orgy of self-flagellation swelled.

I have to step in here: It's not self-flagellation. Self-flagellation, in the sense of seriously scrutinizing oneself for cognitive defects, hatreds, biases, and other errors in mind and spirit, can be a useful function.

But the left never self-scrutinizes. People say they navel gaze. They do not, not in any intellectually or spiritually useful way. Their navel-gazing is navel appreciating.

If they were really pulling themselves apart to examine what makes them tick, that could be very useful. And within a few months they wouldn't be leftists anymore.

What they do, always, is pretend to be speaking of themselves -- "We must do better" -- but their use of "We" is a very odd one.

They mean others. They mean You. They mean anyone not present in their little grouphate sessions.

Self-flagellation? Not hardly. Whipping their various permanent designated whipping boys is all that it is.

Self-flagellation hurts. Whipping someone else feels good, if one gets off on being a Scourge of Evil, which the left does. So long as that evil is located outside of themselves.

Liberal grievance-mongers applauded the administration’s decision to shut down classes. Faculty, students, and opportunists took to the airwaves and the Internet to bemoan “white privilege,” institutional bigotry, lack of diversity, yada, yada, yada.

And now I delete her recounting of how the hoax was uncovered. It's great stuff and I suggest you read it. But again I can't just rip off everything she writes.

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There are other adults who deserve to be called out. As Cornell law professor and blogger William Jacobson, who has pressed the administration for months about the cover-up, notes: “Oberlin continues the wall of silence which delayed for months disclosure of the hoax. It’s time for Oberlin to reveal who knew what, and when, particularly as to the oversight exercised by the Board of Trustees.”

Sad to say, this is the sorry state of liberal-arts colleges in America today: Extreme identity politics, multiculturalism, and pedagogical self-indulgence are creating a generation of race trolls enabled by tenured cultural-Marxist punks raking in beaucoup bucks. The bursting of the higher-ed bubble canÂ’t come fast enough.

Yup.

And speaking of, David Freddoso, or, as I often call him, David Fredosso, recounts the recent history of racial-menace hoaxes. First he underlines this important fact: Oberlin long knew this was a hoax, but kept it silent.

Incredibly, once the hoaxers had been discovered, suspended, and removed from campus, university administrators concealed their knowledge that it had been a hoax, leaving other students (and Americans in general) to fear that their campus was a far more dangerous and hostile place than it actually was.

This is what I find repulsive about leftist. Not liberalism, mind you. But leftism, which has completely taken over what was once liberalism.

The central idea of liberalism is that Truth will liberate men. Truth.

And yet here you have a college -- a college for God's sakes! Half of them have Veritas in their coats-of-arms! -- actively concealing the truth and actively promoting a lie because they've decided the lie is better than the truth.

Liberals? Not hardly.

This is repulsive. Men who think should be repelled by this.

All men who think are repelled by this. The men who do not think and do not love the truth are the ones left to embrace it.

What were once laboratories of truth are now incubators of falsehoods.

He then goes on to list the now very-common after-school activity of perpetrating racial hoaxes on campus.

You'll be happy to know that Law & Order: JTS (Jumped the Shark) is going to be handling the Trayvon Martin shooting and Paula Dean ancient slur with their typical thoughtfulness and nuance.

The episode features the Paula Dean analogue shooting the Trayvon Martin analogue.

Why not have an Alec Baldwin analogue do it, as his most recent racial slur was five months ago, not 25 years ago? Because, Law & Order: JTS says, they're so daring and they ask the "tough questions."

He said the show would ask the tough questions.

'Is racial profiling justifiable? Can self-defense involve racial profiling? We're diving right into that,' he said.

I would think it would be a tougher question to ask why a man with Industry Connections is permitted to drop homophobic and racial slurs like he's Frank Sinatra roasting Paul Lynde and Sammy Davis, Jr., and has yet to be asked to pay any price by his media friends and protectors.

But nah, let's make a barely-famous non-Industry-Connected joke chef the villain. Because Narrative.

"Why do they seem so insistent on making it racial?" MSNBC asks several times per day.

Jonah Goldberg has a similar question, but with a different antecedent for "they."

It's all worth reading, but here's the conclusion:

From Obama down to his cheerleaders in the press, liberals have declared unremitting war on their ideological opponents, cynically polarizing the country along racial -- and, when possible, gender -- lines. They, not conservatives, have been the ones dragging race into any and every political dispute they can. This disgusting strategy has worked well for them, galvanizing minority voters and tarring the Republican brand. I don't particularly welcome the fact that conservatives are fighting fire with fire, but you can hardly blame them given how liberals like Reid have been asking for it for so long.

On Twitter yesterday, I was beside myself noting that the Oberlin story was a National Concern when the media thought it helped their Narrative.

But the exact same story is now a #LocalCrimeStory because it's a hoax which injures their cause.

See how neat that is? The exact same story changes from National Concern to #LocalCrimeStory depending on whose Narrative it helps.

I also am beside myself at being lectured about racism by an institution -- the media -- which is overwhelmingly white, and, like a tall light latte with extra milk and whipped cream, it gets whiter and whiter the higher up you go, so that it becomes almost completely white -- Nazi Party white -- in terms of upper management, high paid writers, and top hosts, pundits, reporters, and lead actors.

And right on cue, Saturday Night Live is adding four more cast members.

Shock of shocks, they're all white.

As they say: Men who live in sin must be the ones most loudly denouncing it.

That last thanks to @rdbrewer4.

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And also gays, which is the reason I assume the Southern Poverty Law Center mentions this. I think if he were just about killing Plain Ol' White People they'd be fine with it, because of course we are second-class citizens verging on the subhuman and, like George Zimmerman, we should just Take What's Coming to Us.

“Warfare is eminent,” the website declares, “and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our Christian hearts can possibly count.”

A former supervisor of Kimathi’s at the DHS told Hatewatch, “Everybody in the office is afraid of him.”

“This guy is filled with hate,” the supervisor continued. “People are afraid he will come in with a gun someday and go postal. I am astounded, he’s employed by the federal government, let alone Homeland Security."

Yeah, you know who's not astounded that he's employed by the federal government? Anyone not in the federal government, viewing it dispassionately from the outside.

To us, it's... good enough for government work, as they say.

The government doesn't fire people. It's like the Mob but instead of occasionally wacking someone they put him on paid vacation for five months.

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And now get ready to get sold out so that Obama can continue satisfying his leftist base.

He now faces the death penalty and could be the first person the U.S. military puts to death in more than 50 years.

Yeah, he won't be. They'll do that thing where they say "We traded the death penalty for his right to appeal" but that makes no sense, as he affirmatively says he doesn't mind being "martyred."

The Obama Administration is using its executive power, as usual, to ignore the law. Nidal Hasan, by the law, should be put to death. He was convicted of multiple capital crimes. A death penalty is easily had.

But count on the prosecutors telling you "Oh well you see it's better if we make a 'deal' with a guy who has nothing at all to bargain with."

A 13-member panel, or jury, of high-ranking officers voted unanimously to convict Hasan, 42, on a slew of premeditated murder and attempted murder charges for killing 13 people and injuring 31 others in the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at the U.S. Army base in Texas.

As the verdict was read, Hasan had no visible reaction.

Terrible.

Each of those corpses in those wooden boxes used to be a living, breathing, laughing human being. In fact, in one of those boxes, there are two former human beings.

If this man does not owe the blood payment for his murders, who exactly does?

No one, of course. And that's the point.

Incorrect: Nevergiveup tells me those aren't coffins at all, but just platforms for displaying the soldiers' boots.

It's an error, but I'm going to let it lie, for rhetorical purposes. But here's the official Correction.

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They say, of course, that this was only due to some "overzealousness" in desiring to defeat terrorists.

Maybe. I can't help but think there was some overzealousness to simply intrude, say, on someone's ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend.

I mentioned in the podcast (with special guests Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelly, and Chelz) that I could almost support giving the NSA wide latitude if one condition were present:

That accidental violations would be punished by serious discipline -- say, two months off with no salary -- and that multiple accidental violations would be punished by a firing, and that intentional violations would be punished by a prosecution.

That, in theory, could keep this very dangerous and worrisome ability in check.

But it's only a theory, because as John Kerry and Eric Holder and Barack Obama demonstrate on a daily basis, The government never fires or disciplines anyone, no matter how serious or deadly or constitutionally-foul their transgressions.

Everyone's back to work at State. Lois Lerner continues drawing a paycheck and she's not even working. Her "punishment" is an extended paid vacation.

That that, huh?

So we're left with a very unsatisfying choice between "Let the NSA run rampant" or "Let terrorists run rampant."

And so it goes in America, a country which once had a government, but now is a government that has a country.

Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade, contradicting Obama administration officialsÂ’ and lawmakersÂ’ statements that no willful violations occurred.

“Over the past decade, very rare instances of willful violations of NSA’s authorities have been found,” the NSA said in a statement to Bloomberg News. “NSA takes very seriously allegations of misconduct, and cooperates fully with any investigations -- responding as appropriate. NSA has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency’s authorities.”

The incidents, chronicled in a new report by the NSAÂ’s inspector general, provide more evidence that U.S. agencies sometimes have violated legal and administrative restrictions on domestic spying, and may add to the pressure to bolster laws that govern intelligence activities.

The inspector general documented an average of one case per year over 10 years of intentionally inappropriate actions by people with access to the NSAÂ’s vast electronic surveillance systems, according to an official familiar with the findings. The incidents were minor, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified intelligence.

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The compilation of willful violations, while limited, contradicts repeated assertions that no deliberate abuses occurred.

Army General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, said during a conference in New York on Aug. 8 that “no one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacy.”

It also doesn't help that any time you ask this lawless administration a question, they simply straight-up lie to your face.

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