But I don't feel bad about saying so, as he outed himself.

Kinda gives "Sulu, take the helm" a whole new resonance. Ohhhhh my.*

* I've searched for the soundbite, but I've come up dry. The best I can do is offer some Hebrew rap called In Da Shul.

Thanks to Ron.

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Get ready to reach for your wallets, New Yorkers.

The jury voted unanimously that the Port Authority was negligent. It found the authority 68 percent at fault for the bombing, while the terrorists who carried it out were 32 percent at fault.

Yep, because the PA permitted the unheard of and wildly negligent practice of "underground public parking" (I wish I had a font to make that phrase all blooddrippy-Halloween scary), they are more than twice as responsible as the actual bombers. Hell, the PA practically held a gun to the terrorists heads. "Do it! Blow it up!"

Ok, to be fair, if you read the article, you can see that the PA certainly knew a bombing *could* happen, but itÂ’s also clear the plaintiffs had something more on their side, a smoking gun: a witness able to cry on the stand. more...

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...from across the blogosphere, over at The Blogometer.

My own reaction: I'm glad the damage has been stopped. This is a bad time for the Bush Administration, and we don't need a split in the base, the only thing keeping the guy afloat.

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I can't wait for the power-ups. +5 Bongos of Peaceful Rhythms, here I come!

Thanks to LegalXXX, with more.

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Not golden diapers, maybe, but sterling silver ones at least:

The U.S. economy is on course for a "soft landing" and steady growth of 3.25 percent next year, the OECD said Thursday, but the federal budget deficit and soaring oil prices still pose risks.

"Despite higher energy prices, the expansion has continued at a solid pace, driven by private domestic demand," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report.

"Although such a soft landing is the most likely outcome, there are some risks," the report added. "With little economic slack left, inflation could continue to pick up, in particular if oil prices keep rising."

And that rosy projection comes from Paris. So, you know those douchebags docked us at least .25%.

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Can't say I'm very upset about this particular engagement of the long-anticipated Iraqi Civil War.

Except for a policeman who was killed:

Shiite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clashed Thursday with Sunni militants in fighting that killed at least 15 people, and three American soldiers died in separate attacks the day before, officials said.

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The Shiite-Sunni fighting occurred after al-Sadr's Madhi Army militia raided a house in Nahrawan, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, to free a fellow militiaman kidnapped by Sunni militants, said Amer al-Husseini, an aide to al-Sadr.

The Mahdi Army freed the hostage and captured two militants during the raid, but was ambushed on its way out of Nahrawan, al-Husseini said.

Police Maj. Falah al-Mohammadawi said the 15 deaths included 14 Madhi Army members and a policeman. He said 14 people were wounded, two policemen and the rest either militia members or civilians. No insurgent casualties were reported.

This fat jackass couldn't kill a single terrorist? Loser.

Maybe he'd be a more effective leader if he could stop jacking off at work.

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UPI catches up to LauraW:

Wisconsin man is in big trouble for photographing his penis, making copies and leaving them on women's windshields in at least four towns.

Jeffrey John Hein, 40, currently faces 30 charges of lewd and lascivious behavior for disseminating his private business throughout Hartford and West Bend, and police in Germantown and Menomonee Falls told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he violated their penal codes as well.

Well, obviously.

In related news, Wankette's head just exploded.

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So obvious and juvenile it invites parody. Even a left-leaning (it seems) theater critic is thoroughly put off:

This, however, is a drama that panders to the prejudices of those who hate America and all its works. Like the recent plays and poems of Harold Pinter, it suggests that the US is every bit as evil, indeed possibly more evil, than those it is fighting in the so-called war on terror. It is the inane moral equivalence I can't stomach, the suggestion that Bush is as wicked as Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden or Islamic suicide bombers.

Still, such a view will always find vocal support among liberal theatre audiences, for whom self-flagellation about the evils of the West has become a source of profound and perverse pleasure. The God of Hell is set on a dairy farm in the American Mid-West.

A friend of the farmer, who has been working for a sinister government establishment, has come seeking refuge, hotly pursued by a sinister official who terrorises the farmer's wife and tortures the escapee by attaching electric leads to his penis.

As this bloodied, twitching victim emerges from the cellar with a sack over his head, we are clearly meant to draw the conclusion that the American Establishment will soon be routinely torturing its own citizens like the prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

Coming on like the malign villain from a Bond movie, the flag-waving, electrode-wielding neo-con spouts his megalomaniac creed. "We can do whatever we want, buddy-boy. That should be clear by now. We're in the driver's seat. Haven't you noticed? There's no more of that nonsense of checks and balances. We're in absolute command. We don't have to answer to a soul."

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But whatever the strengths of the production, this remains a dismayingly glib piece of right-on, Left-wing paranoia. Sam Shepard will doubtless win the Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of it.

Feh.

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Thank God.

More [Added By Ace]: Captains Quarters responds to Hugh Hewitt's argument that, by tanking this nomination, conservatives have helped liberals defeat future nominees.

Hewitt's argument is that we blocked her from having a full up or down vote on the Senate floor. So why, he asks, shouldn't liberals do so for the next nominee?

Well, first of all, as a technical matter, Miers withdrew her nomination. If the liberals can provoke the next nominee into withdrawing his or her nomination, then I guess they will have won that battle, though I don't see that as likely, and I don't see such an effort as being helped much by the Miers episode.

More importantly, though: liberals will fight like cats and dogs to oppose any strong conservative nominee. They would have before; they will in the future. They always will. Which is why it so galled me that Bush gave up. Why is it always we who are expected to give in and give up?

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"Get me some mother****ing chocolate milk, mom!".

Isn't Xbox Live! wonderful? It brings us all together in peace and harmony and promotes family values!

(snicker)

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