Shocking but true.

The big question, of course: Is "Walken for President" for real? According to one source, the entire campaign, including registration of multiple Web domain names, is an elaborate hoax being perpetrated by members of the General Mayhem forums, one of the largest message boards on the Internet.

Next World Net Daily scoop: "Vice President Gore" actually only appeared one (1) time on Saturday Night Live; the rest of his "appearances" were impersonations by comedian Darryl Hammond.

(George W. Bush, however, appeared upwards of 40 times on the show.)

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Or some number around there. I don't do math.

The Princeton Review taught me how to "guestimate."

Whenever a cop asks me how fast I thought I was going, I always answer "C."

"E" is the Joe Bloggs answer. Always. You tell a cop "E" and he immediately starts busting up your headlights with his baton.

Geeks, Do Not Vex Me: Yes, c is the speed of light. I noted that so you don't have to. Now go back to making Venn diagrams with circles labled "Me" and "Possibilities of Getting Laid," and note that the areas contain no points of overlap.

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On Friday, every story on the front page was about "Mother" Cindy Sheehan, Patron Saint of Easily-Exploitable Video-Friendly Griefpimping.

Greg Gutfeld isn't having any of it. He farts in the HuffPo iving room and doesn't even have the common decency to blame the dog.

Nice Jaws riffing, too.

Thanks to the Blogometer.

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Boy is Karl Rove good:

To the cast of characters caught up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, investigators have reportedly added another name, that of the secretary-general's brother, Kobina Annan.

That means at least three members of the Annan clan are now under scrutiny, including Secretary-General Annan himself, his globetrotting son, Kojo Annan, and his brother, who is Ghana's ambassador to Morocco.

This latest news comes from London, where the Sunday Times's Robert Winnett reported yesterday that the U.N.-authorized investigation into oil for food, led by a former chairman of the Federal Reserve board, Paul Volcker, is looking into suspected business connections between Kobina Annan and a family friend, Ghanaian businessman Michael Wilson.

Kofi, Kojo, Kobina. How kute.

I hope they all get konvicted.

Thanks to Heh.

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A while ago Jonathan Turley reported that Dick Durbin had asked Judge Roberts what he would do if the law required him to rule in a way that the Catholic church believed was immoral. Roberts said he'd probably have to recuse himself, which, according to Turley, struck Durbin as "the wrong answer."

Not wanting to alienate Catholics or other religious folks, Durbin and his spokesmen claimed that Turley's reportage was wrong. (Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!)

Some commented "That's why you should always have a tape running."

Apparently Mr. Turley did.

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It'll be a compliation CD and will be callled...

“The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections from the Clinton Music Room” and is planned as the first in a series of discs of the former president’s favorites.”

For crying out loud. He's pushing sixty and he's still making mix-tapes. What an effin' horndog.

The former president would not detail which songs would be on his mass-market mix-tape, but he did say, "When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV."

He also noted that "The attitude dictates that you don't care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin'. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude."

Note that on the safe-for-TBS edited version of his quote he says "you don't care whether she stops, shops, hops or drops."

On the mix-tape... Jen has some suggestions.

Thanks to Dave from It's Old.

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Another interesting one from Captain Ed. The Iraqis had hoped for unamity on the proposed constitution, but Sunnis continue to be intransigent.

Kurdish and Shi'ite drafters have threatened to send the draft constitution to the National Assembly on a two-thirds vote if the Sunnis continue their rejectionist stance.

Obviously, it would be best if the Sunnis agreed to the proposed constitution; it will hardly end the fighting if they are bypassed yet again.

But... one begins to sense that they simply will never accede to any government in which they do not dominate.

At some point the Iraqi Sunnis might get the full-out civil war they seem to be agitating for. I hope they're prepared for the same sort of mercy they showed the Kurds and Shi'ites for the past 30 years.

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Unbelievable... because it's not biased at all.

The most telling—and moving—picture of Bush grieving with the families of the dead was provided by Rachel Ascione, who met with him last summer. Her older brother, Ron Payne, was a Marine who had been killed in Afghanistan only a few weeks before Ascione was invited to meet with Bush at MacDill Air Force Base, near Tampa, Fla.

Ascione wasn't sure she could restrain herself with the president. She was feeling "raw." "I wanted him to look me in the eye and tell me why my brother was never coming back, and I wanted him to know it was his fault that my heart was broken," she recalls. The president was coming to Florida, a key swing state, in the middle of his re-election campaign. Ascione was worried that her family would be "exploited" by a "phony effort to make good with people in order to get votes."

Ascione and her family were gathered with 18 other families in a large room on the air base. The president entered with some Secret Service agents, a military entourage and a White House photographer. "I'm here for you, and I will take as much time as you need," Bush said. He began moving from family to family. Ascione watched as mothers confronted him: "How could you let this happen? Why is my son gone?" one asked. Ascione couldn't hear his answer, but soon "she began to sob, and he began crying, too. And then he just hugged her tight, and they cried together for what seemed like forever."

H/t to Secure Liberty, which turns one year old today. Secure Liberty comments on that whole jackass affair of the NCAA banning of the Seminoles' mascot, too.

Bias? Lori from PoliPundit doesn't think the article is quite as unbiased as a quick reading might suggest. Her case? Editorializing like this:

Bush likes to play the resolute War Leader, and he has never been known for admitting mistakes or regret. But that does not mean that he is free of doubt. For

I get what she's saying.

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Once again, our perfidious friends the Frogs make even the NY Times look professional. Can anyone here, or at Agence France Presse, explain to me the association between this picture and the sidebar text???

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Did I mention I love Karl Rove?:

Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" yesterday, the fiery former Vermont governor said, "It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq."

To be fair, I suppose if Iraq went much more for Sharia law than it did under Saddam the average woman would in fact be worse off. Yes, Saddam's son raped a lot of women, but obviously he couldn't rape every woman in Iraq. There are only so many hours in a day, and with political killings and torture sessions booked morning 'till night, boy, the day really fills up. Not much time left over for trolling around the streets of Baghdad looking for a young girl to abduct, rape, and then kill (and then kill her whole family, too).

But really, there isn't much indication that Iraq is going to become a nutter state. That's just Howard Dean's wishful thinking.

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