This video -- especially the sound -- gives you an idea of the terrifying risks our boys are facing.

The media thinks they're better than I am. These guys are better.

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Note: This post was made sticky-- accidentally, actually, and it seems to be staying at the top of the queue, for reasons I don't quite get. There are new posts coming in below, though.

Alas, the fundraising drive continues, but I have to say I am extraodinarily grateful for everyone's response so far. I got a little behind on thank-you notes -- yahoo has this strange tendency to occasionally post new messages back three or four pages into the queue, plus a lot of people donated -- but, until I do write you a letter of appreciation, let me say thank you, as a general matter.

A couple of donors aren't getting a thank you right away, because their email screener keep bouncing my attempts to them. I have to ask permission to respond. But I'll do that.

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Posted by: Ace at 08:09 AM | Comments (9)
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Just reminding you.

Look, if we win, then I get to use the headline just suggested to me by Carin: "Why the Long Face, Senator?"

Is that funny? I don't know if it's so much funny as true.

Please. I want to use that damn headline. If I can't use that damn headline, I just might quit blogging altogether.

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DRUDGE BLARE:

FLASH 10.29.04 11:36:56 ET /// Soldier to brief reporters at Pentagon within the hour that he was tasked with removing explosives from al QaQaa and he and his unit removed 200+ tons... Officer was ordered to join the 101st airborne on April 13 -- to destroy conventional explosives at the al QaQaa complex... Developing...

MAJOR: WE REMOVED 200+ TONS OF EXPLOSIVES FROM FACILITY

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FoxNews' take.

New York Times, how does it feel to be Drudge's bitch?

Let me put it in terms that even your moronic publisher (who couldn't get into a top college, despite tens of millions of dollars and family connections out the wazoo):

You, Coyote. Bush, Roadrunner. Lame October Surprise: one ACME rocket and pair of ACME roller skates, plus a big ACME slingshot and ACME Roadrunner-decoy-robot.

Douchebag says what?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

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Sweet:

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the third quarter of 2004, according to advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.3 percent.

I kinda don't want this guy around, because he scares Kim Richards (and who could blame her?), but conservatism is nothing if not a respect for tradition, so:

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Reading Kausfiles, I came across this interesting link:

I approve of [the Economists' endorsement of Kerry]--though it's always a shaky moment in these non-peacenik endorsements when the writer tries to convince himself or herself that Kerry won't bail out on Iraq prematurely, isn't it? (Kerry has been "forthright about the need to win in Iraq," but do you trust him and if so why? Because Andrew Sullivan's blogging will keep him honest?) ...

What on earth could he man by that last question? Did Andrew Sullivan actually suggest that he'd keep Kerry focused like a laser on victory in Iraq?

It couldn't be. It just could not be. Not even someone as obviously vain and solipsistic as the Shrill Shill could possible suggest something like that.

Then again: Maybe he could after all.

Sullivan, fresh off glowingly quoting some dope calling him a more important political force than all the liberal 527's put together, quotes Marty Peretz of the New Republic thus:

John Kerry speaks, not unfairly, of George W. Bush's habits of denial. But Kerry himself is in denial. He is in denial about the United Nations. He is in denial about the Australian election that returned to office for an unprecedented fourth term its prime minister who has been, with his country, a pillar of the Iraq coalition. He is in denial about Japan, whose government, unlike Germany's and France's, does not carp at the United States. He is in denial about Afghanistan, where, for the first time in history, men and women, riding on donkeys and walking barefoot across great distances, have exercised the right to choose those who govern them. He is in denial about Iraq itself. The Jordanian daily Al Ra'i recently called Moqtada Al Sadr's apparent retreat from armed struggle "a farewell to arms" that is as politically significant as the establishment of the provisional authority. Has Kerry come close to recognizing this? Has he acknowledged that the Bush administration has negotiated with nato a plan to send, starting in November, up to 3,000 soldiers to train Iraqi troops? These soldiers will be under the command of General David Petraeus, who is mustering the military might and political will to retake much of the Sunni triangle. Many Iraqis now have second thoughts about opposing the coalition. Even the BBC has said as much. But Kerry hasn't.

Sounds pretty damning. What's Sullivan's response?

Yes, there's denial on both sides. Whose is more dangerous? That's the question. And if Kerry wins, he can expect to be subjected to relentless scrutiny from pro-war types like Marty and, ahem, your humble blogger.

Ah. I see. Sullivan is now making the case to "independent eagles" that it's safe to vote for Kerry -- despite his profoundly McGovernite worldview -- because, after all, Andrew Sullivan and his scary-important blog will make the world safe for democracy.

Are.

You.

Kidding.

Me.

Is Ecstacy a hallucinogen? How about a euphoric? It's both, right?

Just checking.

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Why, oh why, does it seem the Liberal Legacy Media is in such a terrible rush to publish derogatory information about the Bush Administration, often without doing the most basic fact-checking, and yet ABCNews carefully ponders the "political implications" of Al Qaeda's endorsement of John Kerry, and refuses to broadcast it?

It's a stone cold mystery. Who can figure this puzzler out? Certainly not your humble one-man right-wing attack-machine.

Belgravia Dispatch has a long and strong post about the DNC/NY Times' rush to put out, ahem, explosive allegations about Bush's incompetence, and then its slow, begrudging, but inexorable rolling back of the story without admitting an iota of error.

Long story short-- I summon the pithy, earthy wisdom of Vinny Gambino: "Everything that guy just said is bullshit."

Disgraceful.

The liberal media realizes it's already gone too far this time in pimping for their media-government complex allies, and that there's no reason any more to hold back. A Bush victory -- and likely Republican gains in the House and the Senate -- will destroy them.

So, we have two options. Option A, we vote like madmen and in one glorious day demolish not only John Kerry and his southern sweetheart John Edwards, but ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, the LA Times, and, just for shits and giggles, Andrew Sullivan and Josh Marshall.

Option B, you sit on your ass because you're too lazy to spend an hour at the polling place and Kerry wins and the media wins and within three years the Supreme Court is dominated by six liberal judges and you kiss away any hope of ever getting your country back again.

Your choice.

Not that I'm endorsing Bush for President, you understand. I'm still "wrestling over the issues."

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Here's the bad news: he's also behind in Ohio.

Let's be cautiously optimistic about this -- and let's vote, damnit -- but it's probably safe to say at this point of the the election what they say about Hollywood: No one knows anything about anything.

What we have on our hands is a flip of a coin, and unless you're just a degenerate gambler, you can't be happy about that.

On to it, then:

October 29, 2004 -- Two new polls yesterday claimed President Bush has 2-point leads in Pennsylvania and Michigan — must-win states for Democratic rival John Kerry.

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Bush led by 49 to 47 percent in the Quinnipiac University poll of Pennsylvania. That's a statistical tie, but it's the first poll to show Bush ahead. The Los Angeles Times and Zogby polls showed a tie.

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In Michigan — a state that even Republicans saw as a long shot — Bush led by 47 to 45 percent in a Zogby poll. Bush strategists targeted the upper Midwest, saying Iowa and Wisconsin were their best bets, followed by Minnesota and then Michigan.

Moderate Kim Richards. Maybe one of her more heavily-clothed scenes in Tuff Turf:

Update: This guy says Bush is ready to take a commanding lead in Ohio.

Okay, but, he's only got 'till Tuesday you know.

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But beware of the dead ones.

A poll of newly registered voters shows a slight preference for the President:

About 48 percent favor Bush in a head-to-head race, and 44 percent favor Kerry. Bush's support in the group has climbed 8 points since the previous Pace Poll/Rock the Vote survey in July while Kerry's support has slipped 6 points. Seven percent remain undecided.

Bush isn't ahead by much, but what I'm happy about is that he isn't far behind. If this poll is accurate, then it means all those claims about an army of committed liberals who just haven't voted before are bunk, and we can all relax and stop hoping for low turnout. Because non-voters are about equally split between Republicans and Democrats.

Is this worth a little Kim Richards? Oh yeah. But just a little.

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Okay, l'affaire O'Reilly is over.

They settled, no one admitted much of anything, an undisclosed amount was paid by an unknown party to an unspecified person, and O'Reilly's ratings have actually risen 30%.

He's golden. No one's going to dethrone him, at least not until someone puts me on at 8 o'clock.

So, it's safe now.

And remember-- all of this stuff is alleged, and it's not even being alleged anymore. This is just silliness. No harm intended. more...

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