Football Fans for Truth sends this bit my way. You will, no doubt, be shocked to learn that while Terezzzza Heinz-Kerry -- she of the "refreshing candor" -- claims she always roots for the Steelers, it turns out she whoops it up when she's in the luxury box of the owner of their opponent.

There's videotape and everything.

Shocking, yes.

I had a couple of reservations about linking this. For one thing, even though it portrays the "candid, refreshing" Terezzza as an ass, it also kinda-sorta helps John Kerry a little bit, because it appears -- appears -- that John Kerry is both rooting for the team he claims to support (the Pats) and furthermore, seems to be able to recognize a touchdown when it occurs.

Which is surprising.

My other reservation is that I remain unconvinced that this is in fact Terezzza at all. I'm pretty sure, once again, that this is pop legend Sir Elton John.

At any rate, view this vile creature clapping like monkey in a heroin-banana Skinner box here.

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When Mr. Jeff G. of Protein Wisdom asks you to post a link to a video he's trying to push, you don't argue. It's almost certainly quality stuff.

I was going to post it sight-unseen, but I couldn't wait to see it, and it's terrific.

Nice bit of newsjacking* on the Bush and Edwards live-feed videos. Plus, they play the entire Blues Brothers' version of Rawhide, which is just an awesome bonus.

And Jeff: You don't have to push it. In an hour, the Daily Recycler's servers will be melted down.

* Yeah, I'm still pushing my "newsjacking" neologism. I'm just not going to stop until four people actually use it.

One of these days I'm also going to bring back Smitty HQ.

I'm stubborn.

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You may have thought that since the site was down, I took off the day to attend to personal business. You couldn't be more wrong. Ace of Spades HQ does not sleep and will not falter, and during the down-time, your intrepid correspondent crashed a roundtable discussion hosted by the Manhattan Institute/Fabiani Society. In attendance were Kathryn Lopez of NRO, Robert A. George of the New York Post (I believe), and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal.

I also wandered the streets for a bit, keying every car which displayed a pro-Bush bumper sticker, so that this petty political vandalism would be blamed on fascist leftists. I do for you and I keep doing for you. (If it was your car-- sorry, but you can't make an omlette without keying a couple of cars.)

At any rate, John Fund had several interesting things to say about the upcoming election.

First of all, he's fairly confident of a Bush victory.

Second of all, he finds it silly that the Dems are putting so much stock in the polls being wrong at this point. Dems believe that all these "new voters" will save them; I believe he pointed out that Republicans have enlisted nearly as many new voters. Further, Dems continue to believe that people using cell-phones aren't being polled enough, and that these "hidden voters" will save the liberals' bacon. Fund says that pollsters do attempt to compensate for this, and furthermore, there are other ways to reach such voters, and also that there aren't many people who rely solely on a cell phone for communication.

He didn't make the obvious point-- why should one assume this army of cell-phone users is especially liberal? Maybe there's some data indicating they do skew to the left.

Third, he thinks it's 75% likely the election will result in a clear win for one candidate or another. There's a 15% chance of disputed election that will take several weeks to resolve -- with lots of litigation and recounts -- and a 10% chance of a full political meltdown that will be worse than Florida. He thinks that would obviously be bad for our democracy, and who can argue with that? I don't want to overstate things, but we're kinda-sorta close to a really nasty period of unending political warfare. I'll have more scary-insightful comments on that later, as Josh Marshall would say.

But the real news was Fund's report of a conversation he had with a Democratic consultant, whose name, he said, we'd all know. He didn't say the guy's name, but he said he had spoken to him in the green room during the taping of a recent show.

Fund asked what he thought of the election, and this man said, "Off the record, I think Kerry just might lose." But he then continued (paraphrased): "That doesn't mean it's over, though. Democrats will protest and fight so strongly that Bush won't have a win even if he wins. We will obstruct so much that this country will be ungovernable by Christmas."

That's what we're faced with, guys. It's imperative you vote to not only re-elect the President (whoops-- guess I let the cat out of the bag re: my endorsement), but to re-elect him fairly comfortably, to actually give him a mandate and prevent the full-scale political meltdown of this country.

Democractic government and internal political peace are not necessarily permanent features, not even in America, although we've muddled along well enough for so long that it might seem that way. Other countries have suddenly been faced with political crises and political violence and yes, even civil war. (I guess we've had all that too, but not for some time.)

Vote.

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Make of it what you will-- people are betting with their money he'll take about 296 electors.

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Political Rhapsody.

Thanks to JimW.

Also, I'm told the moonbats are all up in arms because George Bush childishly gave the cameraman the finger while setting up for a televised address, way back when.

Please. Just stop already. You're embarassing yourselves.

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Longtime blogger-in-arms MarcLand just got himself a big fat mention and interview in the Detroit Free Press.

Congratulations, Marc.

In related news, Ace of Spades was just asked for his opinion "on a range of consumer issues" including "whether or not I had heard of the new Swiffer Wet-Jet, and if so, if I thought the advertising campaign showed the product in an interesting and attractive light."

So, you know-- don't think you're so great, MarcLand. I've got things happening here, too. I'm a somebody too.

(eyes go up to noose made of electrical cords dangling from pipe in basement ceiling; chugs from jug of Val-U-Rite discount vodka)

Damnit, I'm a somebody too.

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Congratulations to the Red Sox.

The great thing about the win is that we don't have to hear about that stupid "curse" anymore. Well, we'll hear about it a lot in the next few weeks, and in the beginning of spring training next year, and then-- not so much. From now on, Sox, when you blow a 6 game lead in September, you'll have to admit it's just because you collapsed and weren't very good rather than carrying on with this nonsense about a curse.

Political ramifications? Obviously, John Kerry wants to read the win as some sort of a metaphor for the triumph of Northeastern liberalism. That just got a little bit harder:

GIBSON: "Well, well said, Curt and Shonda. You both have certainly lifelong membership now in the Red Sox nation. It was a great thing to watch, and I think everybody – whether they were great Red Sox fans or not -- had to admire what this team did. It was extraordinary, and one of the great stories of sport. And sport always produces such great stories. Curt, Shonda, great to have you with us. Congratulations."

SCHILLING: "And make sure you tell everybody to vote, and vote Bush next week."

The Sox victory, combined with the Schilling endorsement of Bush, just caused Son of Nixon's head to explode like Michael Ironside in Scanners.

Son of Nixon will be missed. A little.

H/T: Tanker.

And, for that one of you who is a fan of the foul-mouthed time-travelling baloney sandwich known as Johnny Coldcuts, turns out that he got another one right, back on June 8:

Wanna get rich, fuckface? Five fuckin' words: Red Sox World Series Sweep! Eh, go ahead and fuckin' ignore me, ya dirty shitmongers.

Now, Johnny travels in time, but he's a 1 a substance abuser and 2 a moron, so his visions of the future are often clouded by Rufies and old-fashioned stupidity. But it looks like he got that one right.

Thanks to Jeff Kelly for reminding me of that and Stumbo for tracking the prediction down.

Johnny Coldcuts has another prediction to make-- let's hope he's not high:

George Bush wins 54-43 in the popular vote; takes all battleground states and Michigan and New Jersey. You can bet your dirty-bastard lives on it, jerkweeds.

Sounds good to me, Johnny.

But Curses Can't Simply Disappear; They Have to Be Passed on to Someone Else, Like the Monkey's Paw Update: Dave from Garfield Ridge offers this tidbit, for those of you who believe in hexes and gris-gris and such:

If Bush really does have Big Mo, I'm thinking that, by saying that he'd rather have the presidency than a Red Sox victory, John Kerry might just have sucked the Curse out of the Red Sox and into him, like Father Karras yelling "Take me! Take me!" to the possessed Regan at the end of The Exorcist.

Well, actually, that is how curses and such work. There's never a win-win resolution; there's got to be a sacrifice. Blood in, blood out.

It would be delicious. Delicious like the blood-filled cursed cherry pie the daughter eats at the end of Thinner.

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Who can blame him? They're big fans of his in Paris.

The stinkiness, the unkempt beard, the, you know, Jew-killing.

Let's all not-pray for a swift recovery.

Thanks, GregS.

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Mu.nu seems to be ailing today. I'll post at at the blogspot address, www.ace-o-spades.blogspot.com if Mu.nu becomes unstable, or won't let me post here.

Sometimes the site is actually up, but the software won't let me post. It happens.

Actually, maybe I'll try posting in both places. I don't know.

Was there some sort of widespread internet attack? Why is everything down?

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At least there was nothing at all interesting going on yesterday to blog about.

Sorry, again. This will be resolved soon.

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