Neither good nor bad. Which makes it, you know, actually good, because liberals have been dancing around like they just got their fat Bush-At-36%-Approval checks.

Good Lord All Mighty. Was it really all about the price of gas?

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To make Mike's job easier, and to create a thread that's almost all good ones, I propose that people can copy and paste their favorite Dick Cheny facts to this thread.

The rule is, though, you can't transfer your own over. Someone else must do it.

And they've got to be great ones. Not just smiles, full-on chuckles.

Copy the fact, the author (with a "-- [author]") at the end, and then sign your own name to the post. No anonymous posts allowed.

Please check the list (maybe do a quick search) to make sure you're not duplicating a fact that's already been posted.

This should help Michael winnow down the field.

Seriously... That first one wasn't me. Come on, no anonymous posts. Make up a freakin' name for crying out loud.

No Debuts: Material must be posted first in the original thread. Only those which past the Ordeal of Trial By Dick Cheney's Cock can make it here.

Thanks For The Input, Commenters! The Cheney thread is pretty much the most linked post I've had in ages, maybe since the Democratic Candidates as D&D Charaters one. So far, NRO, the Blogometer, Free Republic, a passel of chat forums, and of course early-adopter Dave from Garfield Ridge.

Due to your efforts, a wider audience now sees how we roll here.

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What should I ask of Santa Claus for Christmas?

1) "The Ultimate Star Trek Collection," a 212-disc set that boldly goes where no Trekkie DVD collection has gone before, assembling 10 feature films and every episode from all five broadcast series, plus hours of interviews and rare footage, a bargain priced at under $2,499.

or

2) a life.

I want the life, but I need the Trek.

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Despite Gains, There Are Still Lots of Things To Be Depressed About, Like AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Ka-ching:

) -- America's payrolls snapped out of a two-month hurricane-induced funk in November and grew by 215,000, the most since July. The unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent.
The fresh snapshot of the jobs situation by the Labor Department on Friday suggested that employers were feeling much better about hiring now that energy prices have retreated from record highs and the energy supply and transportation disruptions from the trio of Gulf Coast hurricanes are easing.

The pickup in employment in November came after two dreary months where hiring turned lethargic because of the devastating storms.

In October, payrolls grew by just 44,000, even less than the government first reported a month ago. But September's showing -- a month that bore the brunt of Katrina, the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history -- showed that jobs actually grew by 17,000, according to revised figures released Friday. That's an improvement from the loss of 8,000 jobs previously reported.

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This won't actually play for me, but I'm assured it's funny.

Seems to work if you just go to the main page and scroll down.

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Please let me know all the Bill Braskey type stuff you know about the VP.

Bumped. Michael says he'll judge these and put them into a list of some kind.

For Easier Reading... See the Best of Cool Facts About Dick Cheney for the oddest and funniest entries.

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I banned someone last night for using the n-word. Trouble was, it was an AOL IP, and a lot of people use those. Apparently you get assigned a different AOL IP everytime you sign on.

I unbanned it, as an AOL user complained he was being screened out inadvertantly.

If you're on AOL and have had trouble connecting, try again, maybe it will work now.

What's the fun of having a blog if I can't ban people?

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The Best of the Web notes that Sullivan has finally responded to the charge that his growing, hysterical opposition to the war (and to "torture") is colored by Bush's stance on the FMA.

A charge I've made dozens of times, but the dickhead avoids me and instead links a cat named Mark Shea.

Shea makes the rather inarguable point that, had Bush opposed FMA, Sullivan would be his greatest apologist on the war, and torture, rather than one of his shrillest critics.

Sullivan has a hissy fit:

Not a word of this with respect to my motives is true; and all of it is deeply offensive. . . . My opposition to the conduct of the war began very early--almost as soon as looting took place and Rumsfeld embraced the chaos his terribly-managed occupation had begun to foster. I'm used to these slurs, and the record shows they are baseless. But the notion that I would be finding excuses for torture if Bush had refused to back the FMA [Federal Marriage Amendment] is so vile an attack on my integrity it deserves a response. My position on this question has been the same my whole life.

Taranto notes that Sullivan has not, in fact, been quite so against "torture" in the past -- before Bush announced his support for the FMA -- as he is now, and quotes him defending tough tactics. He also notes that Sullivan himself linked Bush's embrace of FMA to the feeling of betrayal among gay war supporters.

But Sullivan has also previously admitted that his views on politics have been shaped by Bush's FMA position. As Sullivan endorsed Kerry drip-by-drip, he wrote:

But am I the only one who is far less enthusiastic about Bush's war leadership now than I was a year ago? I supported the war in Afghanistan and Iraq; I support pre-emption as a policy; I believe in taking the fight to the Jihadists at every possible opportunity. But hasn't the last year changed things somewhat? From the fall of Baghdad on, we have seen little but setbacks. Our goals in Iraq now are limited to making the place less dangerous and oppressive than it was under Saddam. If a Democrat had this record, do you think National Review would let it pass? Look, I am far from being persuaded that Kerry can do any better in the war. But I cannot support this president on the war as enthusiastically as I once did - because the mounting evidence suggests a much more mixed record.

THE MARRIAGE THING: And yes, of course, the president's support for the FMA has colored this. How could it not? If you had spent much of your life arguing a) that gay people deserve civil equality and b) that civil marriage is the fundamental mark of that equality, it would require Herculean masochism to endorse a president who wants to enshrine the denial of marriage to gays in the very Constitution itself. I could live with disagreement on the issue of marriage - but not the amendment. Pace Jonah, I have been quite clear in this blog that, in my judgment, no self-respecting gay person could vote for Bush; and I consider myself a self-respecting gay person.

One of the pitfalls of blogging is that, it being a medium of immediate and often unguarded writing, the truth sometimes accidentally slips out.

Saint Sullivan of the Sacred "Heart-Ache" can hardly complain that it is "The Lowest Blow" (as he titles his rebuttal) to suggest his views on the war are colored by his views on FMA when he himself expressly admitted that more than a year ago.

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There's a fine line between "irony" and "life just being a vicious rotten bastard."

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As Dave says, can a major religion just sorta take a mulligan on one of the three four final destinations in the afterlife?*

Man, I know people who were freaked out when they added "Para-Elemental Planes" the D&D cosmos. (Okay, yeah, I was one of them.)

* Four, right? I forgot Purgatory. Is that still one of them?

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