It's not the biggest secret that Saturday Night Live is absolutely dreadful this year. So that makes moments like this all the more memorable.

Thanks to DM.

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Wounded, an Al Qaeda website says.

Let's pray for:

1) gangrene

2) septic shock

3) unspecified general metabolic arrest

4) herpes complex (hey, he was in prison)

5) chiggers, which generally strikes dogs, but if we're praying, we might as well pray for something fun

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Interesting take. Not mine, really, but I'm beginning to think that this was not the debacle it at first seemed.

Related: The cloture vote for the "extremist ideologue threatening the very foundations of our Republic" -- also known as Priscilla Owens, Texas Supreme Court Justice, elected with 84% of the vote (I think) -- went 81-8.

Michelle Malkin wonders what this does to the Democrats' claims of "extremism."

I don't think a hell of a lot. The Democrats haven't been particularly consistent over the past 6 years especially, and their liberal Spirit Squad in the media hasn't been very eager to point that out.

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Again, I'm forced to consider delinking Michele from ASV.

How dare she knock Mr. Paul Anka's scintilating cover of Jump.

Have you no decency, Madam? At long last, have you no decency at all?

Say what you will, it can't be any worse than Star Wars III. At least this will swing, baby, will full integrity and conscious (sic).

Thanks to Fat Kid.

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Top story at the Wardrobe Door.

Consider: A jury has just decided a man is guilty of the worst crime possible-- taking another human life.

Now, during sentencing, he's forced to wear shackles, which is horrible, you know, because no convicted criminal has ever gotten violent when facing possible life in prison.

7-2 the Supreme Court overturned his sentence, explaining to us all (Shut up, they explained) that the fact that the man was in shackles might give the jury that just convicted him the false impression that this convicted murderer was a threat to the community.

Wherever would they get such an idea? From the shackles? Or the fact they just decided that, based on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, he had taken a human life without justification or excuse?

I'm going to try to bring this up on today's show. Briefly, just as an example of the mentality in the judiciary we're trying to break.

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Sure beats the hell out of doing Continuing Legal Education once a month.

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It's "Blogrebity," supposedly a ranking of blog-celebrity.

This would be a narcisstic post, except it doesn't actually feed my narcissism. It actually fills me with heart-ache.

I'd be happier about linking it if I weren't on the "B-List."

Then again, Tim Blair's on the B-List too, so I guess it's not so terrible.

An extremely dumb link to a dumb list. But there you go.

Thanks for the latest heads up to Tinkerbelle.

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Go to Rightalk.com at 4 (Eastern) and look for "Now Playing"/"Channel 1."

Great guests, as usual. Worried when this guest gravy-train is going to run out, and I'll have to start interviewing my super about how annoying it is to try to fix ovens and faucets all day.

Scott Johnson of the super-blog Powerline will be our first guest and our longer guest. We'll be talking about -- what else? -- filibusters and the dodgy deal that was reached yesterday. Plus, Rathergate revisited -- how the left continues to cling to the fiction that the Killian forgeries may be real -- and the defensiveness of the MSM in general.

Plus-- PepsiCo. giving America the finger.

Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, which is forever challenging the deceptions of "mainstream" Middle Eastern "scholarship," will be our second guest. We'll be talking about Israel after Arafat, the Palestinian Authority's corruption, as well as the domination of anti-American, anti-Isreal scholarship on the country's campuses... and in the country's newsrooms.

The call-in number for the show is 1-866-884-TALK (8255). We actually may get to three or even four calls today, since I have a feeling a lot of people want to rant. Just try to keep your questions/statements fairly short so we can get in more calls. As Bill O'Reilly says: Keep it pithy, please. Really, you just have to drop the main idea of your question/comment, and then we (and our guests) will run with it. You don't have to elaborate too much about what you mean; we're not retards.

Well, I am. But everyone else isn't.

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Memo to Tim Robbins et al.: Your right to dissent is being chilled when a fascist lunatic regime may execute you for the most anodyne of political protests. Not when Bill O'Reilly says mean things about you on a cable talk show.

An anti-Kim poster is affixed to a bridge, and the dissenter films it via a camera hidden in a carton of cigarettes, and then smuggles it out of the country.

Today, the North Korean who says he shot the video on behalf of a group called the Freedom Youth League lives in hiding in Thailand under an assumed name. A small, wiry man in his 30s, he smoked L&M cigarettes nervously as he recalled his daring feat against the totalitarian government.

Everything had to be done with the utmost secrecy, he said, to the point that he and his associates communicated by means of notes passed in sacks of potatoes. He didn't dare tell even his wife.

"If we were caught, everybody would be dead," said the man, who goes by the name Park Dae Heung.

The 33-minute tape has created a sensation in Japan and South Korea, where it has aired repeatedly. South Korean human rights advocates say it is the first evidence of a nascent dissident movement inside North Korea.

Besides the banner hung on the bridge, the video shows an anti-government banner in a factory restroom and has one particularly eye-catching scene in which the camera pans over an official photograph of Kim Jong Il defaced with graffiti as a man denounces him off-camera.

The video is one of a series of samizdat videos that provide a rare glimpse of life in what may be the most secretive country in the world....

Among North Korea watchers, there is some debate about whether the filmmakers were motivated mainly by their opposition to the government or by greed. Many of the videos have been sold to Japanese television stations, which have paid as much as $200,000 for choice footage, according to some accounts.

That people are able to make such videos challenges many of the assumptions about Kim's grip on power. The videos do not necessarily mean the government is on the verge of collapse — the majority opinion among analysts is that it is not — but their existence shows that social control is fraying at the edges.

"Nobody would have dared to do such a thing three or four years ago," said Hitoshi Takase, president of Japan Independent News Net, a Tokyo-based company that distributed footage in March of an apparent public execution in North Korea.

The footage of the anti-government banners was smuggled out of North Korea across the Chinese border by activists working with the Seoul-based Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees. It has been widely shown on television and Internet sites, including [here].

Very interesting. You know, there's a lot of silly talk about the revolution in communications actually provoking a global political revolution.

Except it seems less and less silly. It's still a bit silly in its strong form restatement; no one, I think, is ready for "Starship" to release an update to its 80's non-classic, We Built This City on URL's.

Still, there is something here, and it seems to be essentially a force for truth, justice, and, dare I say, the American way of life.

Plus, there's all that free porn, which is just gravy.

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...done dirt cheap, as far as Democratic concessions.

Thank you, John McCain, for continuing to care so much about liberal media opinion and for continuing to suffer under the delusion that we're going to allow a Napoleon-complexed strutting peacock like you to be our President.

Thanks to NRO's bench memos, which is also collecting up the comments by the Corner regulars.

More Blog/Media Reaction at Scared Monkeys.

Via The Political Teen, who has video of this abortion's unveiling.

The Anchoress ain't happy at all:

ItÂ’s gonna be a long cold day before the GNP sees a dime of my money. A long. Cold. Day.
Can someone please explain to me why, with 57% support from the nation (under-reported, of course), the GOP caved on this?

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This is freaking disgraceful. As usual, the GOP gave up, and the Democrats give up NOTHING. HereÂ’s the agreement. It will make you sick.

Still Worse: Riehl World View notes that page 2 of the sell-out requires the President to consult with Democrats prior to nominating a judge.

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