...does anyone else question the timing of the Downing Street Memos and the revelation that Karl Rove talked to Matt Cooper?

I think perhaps these were intended to "distract" us from today's bombings in London.

Now, I know what you're saying:

Gee, Ace, how could someone have set those events up to "distract" us from a future event? Wouldn't that require them to know the bombings were coming? How could "they" have known?

I'll leave it to you to figure that out.

Let me just say, with smugly sophomoric crypticallity, that forewarned is forearmed.

Awfully convenient. Awfully convenient.

Note To Liberal Jagoffs: This is a satirical post. So don't trot this out as an example of those on the right being as batshit-crazy paranoid as those on the unhinged left.

I'm making fun of these sad stupid fucks, not seriously suggesting that George Soros is going around bombing subways.

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I don't know how, but somehow this is all due to that master of Senate procedure, Robert Byrd:

The good news this week is the unexpected surge in federal tax revenues that is slashing the federal budget deficit by about $100 billion.

This is especially welcome news to supply-side tax-cutters who argued all along that lower tax rates spur stronger economic growth, which, in turn, creates more jobs that increases tax revenues. That is happening now.

It's embarrassing news for President Bush's diehard Democratic critics, who predicted his tax cuts would worsen the budget deficits and drive the government deeper into debt. They argued throughout last year's elections that the tax cuts failed to grow the economy, create jobs or improve fiscal health.

Surely, it has become quite clear they were wrong on all counts -- again. Indeed, it now appears new tax-receipt numbers at the Treasury are showing a sharp increase in individual, corporate and Social Security payments.

Treasury officials say, thus far, in fiscal 2005, which began last Oct. 1, they have taken in nearly $100 billion more than previously projected. Individual tax receipts were up an impressive 21 percent over last year. Business tax revenues rose a whopping 48 percent. They took in a record $61 billion on June 15 alone.

"The numbers are an eye-popping vindication of the Laffer curve [a theoretical correlation between tax rates and growth] and the Bush tax cut's real economic value," tax-cut crusader Stephen Moore wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

What this means is that, despite somewhat higher spending, "The federal deficit could come in at $325 billion to $350 billion, significantly better than the White House $427 billion projection, or the Congressional Budget Office's $400 billion forecast," writes The Washington Post's economics reporter Jonathan Weisman.

Some fiscal experts now predict the deficit could come in at around $300 billion. My own belief is it will be even lower because the economy is growing much faster than expected. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that, for the first three months of the year, the economy was growing at an annualized 3.8 percent, instead of the 31/2 percent they initially reported. This revised estimate, in the face of Wall Street fears of economic slowing, provided "more ammunition for Republican boasts that their tax cuts are the cause of this performance," Mr. Weisman reported.

No cowbell or Kim Richards today, alas.

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From the DUmmies: It's so obvious, it's so transparent, no wonder the sheeple will buy it!:

Oh yes. This surely takes public attention away from Rove. Anyone that can't see that is either a fool or lying; this will be the news for days. Inbetween stories of Martha Steward and baby tigers with heart defects. This will certainly distract many people. And every little distraction helps the neocon monsters.

People, they still amuse me. They balk, fairly well lose their cookies, over the idea that our own government might have had ANYTHING to do with 911. They laugh loudly about conspiracy theories. Yet they fly immediately to the notion that it was a foreign "conspiracy" with ease.

And our government looking as corrupt as any on the planet. With the most resources. NO, they could never have had a hand it that. NO, they would never bomb another nation to reach their political ideals.

No, they'd never use napalm. Never torture prisoners. Never, never, never And NO, this particular conspiracy of bombings in England couldn't possibly have ANYTHING to do with the politics in America, never happen.

Funny. We do so much oil business with the Saudis, and yet still, people don't think our people could have had anything to do with 911. So sad.

Yeah, this will distract from Rove, in a big way.

Then follows a bunch of "You Go, Girl!'s"

But of course someone at DU dissents with this abject nonsense. Distracting from Plame-Gate? Why would terrorists want to do that?

No, a much more sober DUmmie has a much more plausible theory: American "Rovian" neocons hatched this plot themselves to distract from the Downing Street Memos.

If you'd struck the word "distract" from the leftist vocabulary for the past four years, what on earth would they have had to rant about?

Everything's a "distraction" to them from the One True Issue: We should be in power, goddamnit. Why are you all too stupid to understand that? Let's keep our eyes on the ball, Sheeple. Power. In. Our Hands. Stopping fucking about with these silly fictitious so-called "terrorist" related issues.

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“The most violent people on earth are not the demonstrators, not even the anarchists. The most violent criminals in the world today are in the Gleneagles hotel and they’re called the G8,” he said. “They’re responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world by the system of globalized capitalism, by their war, by their exploitation.”

I'm so glad that Gorgeous George garnered enough from Saddam's bribes to be able to avoid public transportation.

Much, much more from California Conservative, who notes Daily Kos' prayer that this savage attack does not make the Brits "scared and hostile."

Hostile?

Why on earth would someone possibly become hostile after a sneak attack on innocent civilians commuting to work?

That's just crazy-talk, that's all that is.

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They probably don't need a great deal of support, but some amount will certainly help.

Bonus: British Red Cross ambulances will probably not be used to ferry terrorists from safe-house to staging-area.

Thanks to Slublog, again.

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Via Malkin:

- the root causes of terrorism are what needs to be addressed in order to get a handle on changing these circumstances. There are myriads (literally) of terrorists who have reasons for what they are doing and planning on doing? This is not insanity. Nor is it helpful to attach the term "evil" to these events. Shock and awe is perhaps the best description of what happened in London this morning, but that strikes a little to close to home doesn't it? What do you think are the various reasons for their actions and how can we address them?

No, only Karl Rove is truly evil.

This, on the other hand, is just folks doing what they have to do to stand up for themselves:

Not sure if the man's face was shredded by flying glass or scorched and disfigured by bomb-fire, but I'm sure he'll be comforted to know that his maiming was done for "reasons" that we really should begin "addressing."

The callous viciousness of these lunatics is appalling. And I say that in full realization that I am in Andrew Sullivan outrage mode.

The amazing thing is that these people spend so much time whining about truly fictititious threats -- like KKKarl Rove's Men in Black carting them off to Gitmo for daring to vote Democratic.

But when a real attack occurs, and people are killed and disfigured, they're strangely... understanding.

Perhaps they should just bear in mind that Bush has "reasons" for doing what he does, too. It's part of his culture, after all. Like the Islamofascists, the WASPs in the United States have historical grievances against the world, and have seen their once mighty influence wane through the years. They've even lost some of their greatest bastions of power, just as the Arabs lost Spain.

Partly to those crafty Jews, in fact. Harvard and Princeton used to be Protestant bastions with quotas on Jewish applicants; now, dang, the places are lousy with Jews. And Indians. And Asians. And etc.

So, DUmmies... please, use some of the empathy you have for Al Qaeda terrorists -- empathy which seems in infinite supply -- to consider the poor case of George Bush and his band of aggrieved religious lunatics as well.

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I've said it before, but it's a strange thing that these "fictitious," "fantasy" threats keep producing real corpses.

DelphiGuy suggests that perhaps the BBC should not re-run it's "documentary" on the "fantasy threat" of terrorism until, say, two or three weeks from now.

That should give the stupid public time enough to get over their little hissy-fit about fantasy mass-murders.

Actually, a Brit named Iain Foster asked of the director...

I have sat through your documentary tonight. I hope your programme is shown again following the next terrorist attack. You sound like the hedgehog who claims that cars won't hurt you!!!! I'm amazed!!!!!!!

I don't think you'll get your wish, Mr. Foster. Fabulists can spin their idiocies only during the safety of slow news weeks.

The left was celebrating this film a few weeks ago... now it will airbrushed out of the picture, Stalin-style.

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Just curious.

After all, he's not politcally popular. Maybe, like Chimphitler McHalliburton, he decided he'd goose his popularity ratings by allowing a terrorist attack on the homeland.

Because, you know, there's no way you could reap similar political benefits by foiling an attempted mass-slaughter.

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But of course they did, darlings.

Again, the lie is quite similar: Bibi Netanyahu evacuated a hotel near a bombing-site shortly before the attack. Because Jews knew, and, who knows, might have actually planted the bomb.

I'm beginning to believe that these people are in fact insane. Once again, two irreconcilable claims from Islamoretard zombies: 1, they're proud that their fellow Muslims struck a "mighty and heroic blow" against children going to school, 2, the Jews actually did it.

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Drinking gin is no longer just a pleasing tipple. Now it's a righteous cause.

Never Pass Up An NRO Link For Post-Pimping:

James Bond, as written by George Galloway and Michael Moore.

Andrew Sullivan finally admits he once supported "rought tactics" for terrorist prisoners... before Bush supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, at least.

Good economic news, accompanied, for no good reason, but a cheesecake picture of Justine "Mallory from Family Ties" Bateman.

Fisking an unobjectionable article about archaeology, just because I'm in a bad mood. (Content warning.)

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