His suicide note seems to be more about a difficult love triangle than hatred for Bush.

Thanks to FrancoisV.

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Okay, this protest is in Britain, and the British, as a nation, are our allies, of course.

Still, this is the terrorist-lovin' mentality that's gripped much of Europe, in particular our "very important allies" France and Germany. There's no amount of diplomacy that can change the fact that many Europeans are not merely anti-US, but actively pro-Al Qaeda.

Screw you guys, I'm goin' home.

Thanks to GregS.

More: "50 Reasons to Hate Americans" a bestseller in France.

What a shock.

I'd like to say the feeling is reciprocated, but that isn't quite right. I think my feelings about the French can best be summed up with this kickass put-down from The Fountainhead. This is a paraphrase:

The Condescending Liberal Authoritarian said, "You don't think much of me, do you, Mr. Roarke?"

"I don't think of you," Roarke replied.

More: The Gleeful Extremist is trying to figure out which countries we should actually support with our travel-dollars and friendship.

I didn't see Israel on the list. And, to be honest, I'm an Anglophile, or rather I was. I'm not sure the UK should be on the list. Yeah, they're with us, but only because of the convictions of a single man. I'd rather just write Tony Blair out a check than see dreary London ever again.

Australia-- fuck yeah.

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Well, gee, everyone must know about Barbra Streisand's "reign of witches" idiocy.

But as Mickey Kaus says, one instance is just happenstance, whereas two instances constitutes a trend that journalists can write a big stupid think-piece about.

Jen's got the second instance of liberals blaming the election results on Dark Magic. The word "mages" figures prominently.

Anyone think the LLM will seize upon this trend as fodder for think-pieces about the goofy panfaith paganism that's all the rage in lefty circles? I doubt it, myself.

The only problem with a top ten about this is that it would be too easy.

Oh yeah-- and also I can only think of two entries. So, okay, maybe not "too easy" so much as "too difficult." Either/or.

Reader-Created Top Ten List? Well, it's obviously a good premise, but I'm sorta stuck. So rather than waste the opportunity, why not let you guys do some of my work for me?

Post your entries for a list titled "Top Ten Reasons, According to Barbra Streisand, That Liberals Lost the Election." Most references should be about witchcraft and such, but it's always good to throw in a couple of oddball ones just to mix it up.

I'll compile the best ones up by late afternoon and post them. Warning: I'm a big tweaker, so don't be too offended if I take your reference/joke and edit it up some.

Obviously, there's gonna be a D&D reference, but as they say in Highlander, There can be only one, so you geeks are really going to have to step it up and put in your A-Game if you want to win the coveted D&D reference slot.

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C'mon. Those penguins are adorable.

And that other ad? Well, first I thought it was a dating service thing, or maybe some type of porn ad. Then I clicked on it, and found it wasn't either. It looks like a bunch of blogs, hyperlinking each other.

It's one of those puzzle deals, apparently. There's some mystery going on in the blogs. If you solve it, you win a Sharp TV. Or something. I don't know the exact rules.

I'm not good at that sort of thing myself; I give up on all the puzzles in Myst after three seconds. But maybe some readers are more game for that sort of a thing.

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It's been long noted that reporters' rolodexes only spin to the left-- it only seems they're capable of calling up left-leaning sources for comment on a story. ("Emil Strachowsky of the People's Institute for Prosperity and Progressivism had nothing supportive to say of the President's plan to partially privatize Social Security, remarking 'What a stupid dick.'")

I had hoped that in the age of Young Media, reporters wouldn't find that similar technological defects kept them from noting that not only is the right well represented on the blogosphere, but a case could be made that we in fact dominate it.

But My Pet Jawa informs me that, with the exception of the mega-proto-blogger Drudge -- a man you can't ignore even if you tried -- CBSNews' conception of "leading political bloggers" seems to be nothing but a run down of the shrieking ninnies of the left.

Go figure, huh?

And once again, note: Rightleaning blogs like this one did indeed publicize the faulty exit poll numbers. But we, unlike the leftwing blogs, corrected the record within hours of posting the data, noting that the surveys were wildly unrepresentative and likely faulty.

Leftwing blogs -- and the leftist amateur webzine Slate -- did not. Most likely because they either wanted the polls to be true, or because they were hoping the bad numbers would depress the Republican turnout.

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Determined, it seems, to reject the winning formula of moderation (real or feigned) demonstrated by Bill Clinton, the Democratic Party has decided that the future lay with the Daily Kos' brand of nasty cryptoparanoiac rantings, and they're following his advice to consider Howard "the Scream" Dean as DNC chair.

Hokay.

In related news, the Republican National Committee just released the following letter:

Dear Democratic Party,

This isn't any sort of fun if you're not even going to try.

Please, give us something to work with here, huh?

Sincerely,

Ed Gillispie

PS: You know the hazards of mixing medications, right? Just checking.

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10. Massive speakers arrayed on midline of bomb blare Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road as it falls, partly as psy-ops against the target, but mostly to piss off Bruce Springsteen

9. Entire cost of researching bomb culled from redactions in the budget of the State Department's International Commission on "Why Do They Hate Us?"

8. First of a new series of bombs ranked somewhere between conventional and nuclear weapons; category tentatively termed "nuclear-ish"

7. Former Congressman Bob Dornan just had a toe-curling forty-six minute orgasm (bless his heart)

6. The announcement of the weapon just gave these guys an idea for a wicked-awesome new stunt

5. Special "Eco-safe" technology guarantees that no trees or squirrels will be harmed by the bomb's detonation (assuming trees and squirrels heed the twenty minute evacuation warning, and use their time wisely)

4. Finally puts an end to the age-old question of whose kung-fu is the most superior

3. High-tech verbal-parsing technology gives the bomb the capability of announcing itself using Chevy Chase's old "Landshark" bit; bomb will claim to be a "candygram" just before detonation

2. You put one of these suckers inside a frog and, well, forget about it

...and the Number One Cool Thing About the New 30,000 Pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)...

1. In an effort to seem more sensitive to the concerns of enemy terrorist murderers, the bombs will not be painted with testerone-fueled tauntings, as most other bombs are; instead, weapons will carry the time-tested message of reassurance, "It's not you... it's me"

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The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP (as in, I guess, "mop up the mess in one colossal detonation") is to be 40% bigger than the puny, sand-kicked-in-its-face wussyboy Mother of All Bombs.

Despite its ridiculous size, it's being built long and skinny (hmmmm...) so that it can actually be carried by the B-2 or B-52. Unlike the MOAB, which is so fat it can only be carted around in cargo planes.

H/t Garfield Ridge, who reminds us that erections lasting longer than four hours may require medical treatment.

Don't I know it, Dave. Don't I know it.

* Where?

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Apparently just a door was damaged, thankfully. It's suspected the bombing was a retaliation for the Van Gogh slaughter.

Terrorism only "works" to the extent that you are butchering people who won't just butcher you back. It relies on your opponent having a greater sense of morality, restraint, and decent respect for human life than you do.

I do not applaud terrorism of any kind. But those who have made murder their religion should bear in mind that at some point there will be people who decide that two can play at that game.

You're not "brave warriors." You are soulless, cowardly murderers whose power, such as it may be, comes from the fact that you have forfeited your humanity to become murderous animals.

That's not a difficult trick. And you may end up finding that your viciousness in turn makes others similarly forfeit their own humanity. And then one of these days a bomb might go off that ends up killing children you actually have some amount of human empathy for.

Not a threat. It's a caution. There does come a point at which the rule of law and ordered justice is pushed aside for the justice of the mob and the vengeance of the vigilante.

It's happened before. It can happen again.

See-Dubya's Not Convinced:

Do we know this wasn't a Reichstag job? I'm reserving judgment on this one until I hear for sure it wasn't a sympathy plea.

Well, similar things have happened before, certainly.

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I haven't watched 60 Minutes in forever, but TLowery tells me that last night they issued a correction regarding an anti-Bush story they ran right before the election:

they said one of the stories from Oregon that said troops did not have full armor for their vehicles was incorrect....that particular story was NOT TRUE!!!!! THE ONE FROM OREGON....that it has come to light that troops DID have complete armor...

Can anyone confirm this? Anyone else see it? TL says there's no transcript available yet.

So, let me get this straight. CBSNews once again runs an major anti-Bush piece right before the election, and only bothers checking the facts after the election is over.

Everyone say it with me, and not at all sarcastically:

I question the timing.

Meanwhile, TLowery also sends word that unfunny, untalented partisan tool Keith Olbermann has now gone the Full Kos and embraced the theory that the election was fixed and stolen from John Kerry.

Gee, I'm so glad that our press corps is so down-the-middle fair and objective, and not given to, say, the paranoia infecting the hard left.

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