He'll be speaking at the National Press Club on blogs and on-line reporting.

PunditGuy shows a great deal of disrespect towards Our Immortal Champion, but he's still got the facts on this amazing rebirth.

Click on the pic for some integrity.

Thanks to See-Dubya for the soundbites. Man, I just completely forgot I had those toys now.

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I don't usually quote DEBKA, as I have no idea really how reliable they are, but I can't pass up this great, well, possbile "news."

Thanks to Jim.

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(Just a headline so far. But who gives a fig about their "reasoning.")

Ehhh... why bother with this whole bothersome de novo review specifically authorized by an Act of Congress? Let's just kill the unattractive retard ASAP, without any additional review.

She just doesn't look cute on TV. If you don't look cute on TV, you might as well be dead, right?

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Michelle Malkin is on Michelle Cottle's case.

Michelle Cottle is, by the way, a perfect idiot, as I have demonstrated before, either on this site in or in my pre-blogging days.

I find it amusing that Cottle and Kurtz find the religious protestors so chuckle-worthy. Funny, no matter how egregiously stupid left-wing protestors behave, the MSM always seem to manage to treat their idiotic protests with the utmost of solemnity and respect.

Thanks to Alicia.

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Mentions in/on...

WSJ: 1
FoxNews: 1
CNN: 1
MSNBC: 1 (although I don't know if I should even bother mentioning that)
The Hotline: 3 or 4
CJR: 1

Additional Readers Garnered from these Mentions: Zero
Crazy Blog-Money Fund: Almost depleted, and it was at near-zero to begin with
T-Shirts sold: 30
Paula Zahn Appearances: zero

Who does a guy have to blow do get some serious play? Just forward me the name. Will man-whore for blog-money.

Update: Meanwhile, useless retards esteemed fellow bloggers Bill from InDC and Jeff "Protein Wisdom" Goldstein will be interviewing Instapundit hisself on their TalkRadio gig.

During the length of the interview, I'll just be sitting in my basement, alone and in the dark, swigging Val-U-Rite discount vodka while knitting together a noose from old gym socks.

But I'll be fine. Don't you worry about me. I'll be just fine. And. Dandy.

Hey Now... This post was intended to be lightly humorous, my typical sort of woe-is-me Howard-Stern-style bitching.

Please don't take it as a bleg. It really was intended for comic effect.

I appreciate the donation and the the t-shirt sale it provoked, however.

OTOH, a poster has just made me a flat-out amazing offer, so I guess I'm pretty happy about my on-line cri de couer. Or however the hell you spell it. I could give a shit about the French or their gutter language.

Posted by: Ace at 10:05 AM | Comments (76)
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Snark and links from SondraK.

Graphic Stupidity Warning: Contains a blind link to Arianna Huffington.

For the love of everything holy-- sure, near-perfect diversity would be nice, but blogging is not a job (unfortunately... if it were, I'd already be competing with that pederast Hannoran for a VP slot).

There are zero entry barriers. Anyone can blog. Anyone can get big (well, admittedly, that's sort of tough, but there's no glass ceiling or anything; it's a function of how much time you have to waste on this nonsense, how long you've been blogging, and, well, how interesting you are).

I have to admit, I am considering doing my part to help the diversity-thingee, and I'm thinking about bringing in an all-star female team of guest bloggers to blog here for a week. Seven of them, I think-- mainly because I still have masturbatory fantasies about BJ and the Seven Lady Truckers, and I think it would be cool to play the role of Greg Evigan, drifting in and out to help the guest-blogging ladies shut down an interstate white-slavery ring and stuff.

But be that as it may-- what's next? A campaign to insure that Dungeons & Dragons games are not only "balanced" in terms of characters (fighter, mage, cleric, thief) but also in terms of having enough women and minority players?

It's hard to get women to play D&D. Believe me, I've tried. Plus, they're not any damn good at it. They just want to spend all day at the Armorer's and Magic Shoppe, shopping and looking for bargains. You just can't get to the dungeon without six hours of looking for the perfect-cute sexy-but-not-slutty pair of Boots of Levitation.

Posted by: Ace at 09:39 AM | Comments (18)
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On-line dating is hard enough, even before you add in the potential for random stabbings.

But seriously-- what are the odds that nice sunset-and-cappuccino-loving guy you meet on-line will turn out to be a "a quiet person that can surprise people with a sudden outburst" and maybe begin stabbing you halfway through the date?

No greater than one in three, I'm thinking.

Hey-- the quest for true love is not without its risks.

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This is a kind of tough call: If Politician X makes libelous statements about Politician Y, can the media be sued for republishing the libelous statements when it just reports Y's words?

Libel is not restricted, of course, to the originator of the libel. Generally, anyone who repeats/republishes the libel can also be sued. The media sought an exemption; they seem to have been denied.

Right Wing News disagrees strongly, and thinks the public's right-to-know outweighs a single person's interest in having his reputation protected.

I don't know, myself. This seems to be a tough call. Yes, it is important for the public to know about even the false claims made by politicians -- and sometimes, of course, sunlight exposes those lies for what they are -- but on the other hand, just because someone libels you, should the press amplify that libel ten-thousand-fold by repeitition and wide dissemination and take no responsibility for the additional injury to person's character?

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I believe Gay Patriot has commented here a couple of times. I may be mistaken; someone calling himself Gay Patriot West has posted. I think it's the same guy.

Either way....

It seems a "chill wind" of leftist hatred is a-blowin':

GayPatriot, the anonymous gay Republican blogger, has officially signed off. In a statement, no explanation was given. With GayPatriotÂ’s permission, I am now able to recount the real story.

On Friday, GayPatriot posted “WANTED: GAY TERRORISTS” in which he identified gay activists and bloggers John Aravosis (Americablog) and Michael Rogers (BlogActive) as ["gay terrorists," for their single-minded determination to out gays they disagree with politically].

According to Gay Patriot, who is also a client of mine, Michael Rogers called GayPatriotÂ’s place of employment on Friday immediately following the post above and spoke to GayPatriotÂ’s secretary and boss. GayPatriot had no idea Rogers would go to such measures and shared with me that both he and his secretary were very upset by the calls but that his boss was understanding.

Later on that day, Rogers personally called me and recounted much of the same account, adding that he had also called the police and is working with the authorities on the matter. Rogers expressed feeling threatened by the post and compared it to posts by anti-abortionists who posted the names of doctors performing them.

Rogers also said he asked GayPatriot to remove the post and replace it with a post about non-violence or he would launch a national boycott of GayPatriotÂ’s corporate employer and pursue any and all avenues necessary to protect himself. By the time Rogers had called, GayPatriot had already made the decision to remove the post and also remove GayPatriot from the blogosphere.

GayPatriot was silenced.

Some wonder why I try to remain anonymous -- this would be why.

Confederate Yankee compares the tactics of the left to what he believes is the anti-gay agenda of Jerry Falwell. I think he's a little hard on Falwell, whom I have no use for and am fequently embarassed by but whom I think means well enough, but the left really cannot have it both ways.

They cannot whine about the crushing of dissent and then practice the most thuggish of intimidation tactics themselves.

Obviously, if Gay Patriot has a post in him and needs a forum, standing offer to say his piece here.

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Michael tips, hearing it off Brit Hume's rebroadcast. I hadn't heard this, and I haven't seen a cite for it.

KCTrio provides the cite.

I'm not religious, but I am actually praying this hearing is fruitful for once, and that it's not too late.

If she dies while these assholes dither and dick around.... What. A. Travesty.

More... KCTrio also tips this Fox story, containing more details than the AP brief.

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