Reporting for duty, idiots!

He really said that. Well, he said it in the negative. He said if kids didn't make themselves smart and get educated, they'd wind up in Iraq. Allah has the audio.

John F'n' McCain, meanwhile, demands that Kerry apologize to the troops:

"The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks."

Thirty damn years and John Kerry's attitude towards his fellow soldiers lower-class inferiors hasn't changed an iota. For some of the upper class, "mixing" with the lower classes in the military produces a certain humility and sense of egalitarianism.

For others, it produces nothing but contempt for people who ought to be serving you high tea, not acting as your equals in a combat unit.

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Dan Riehl thinks it's about time to get out.

Iraqi Shiite militants won a major political victory Tuesday when Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki ordered US and Iraqi units to lift a blockade around the flashpoint suburb of Sadr City.

The Sadrists are "jubilant."

I have to chew this one over. On one hand, it's apparently important that the PM be perceived as his own man, and not merely a creation of the US government, if he's to assert his authority.

On the other hand, if nation-building in Muslim countries can only occur if we allow the jihadists to assert their authority over us, what's the point?

I've been wondering for a while if Bush doesn't have his own exit plan on the slow cooker. One of the exit plans always mentioned -- we'd leave when the Iraqi government requests it.

If he has an idea like that, then right now US envoys are instructing Maliki to either get the Sadrists under control, let the US troops deal with him in their own special way, or expect a withdrawal.

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Conservative-leaning videos sure get flagged as inappropriate in a hurry, but pretty much anything goes for jihadi propaganda clips.

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Seriously.

Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Caca. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational.

Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled "The Scoop on Poop," which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos of animals in some of their most indelicate moments. Stool sample models abound: haylike football-sized balls (elephant), kidney-bean-looking pellets (porcupine) and coallike lumps coated with fur (black bear).

Beyond the "ick" factor, however, zoo officials and the exhibit's creators say there is a lot of information being imparted. Visitors can smell the stench of flowers that mimic dung to attract flies for pollination. Videos include one of a hippo spreading its droppings around to mark its territory. Simple games include "Who Dung It?"

"We didn't want this to be a gross exhibit for shock value," said Chad Peeling, who helped create the display. "Our goal with the exhibit was to make people think, kids especially, about the science in all aspects in life and this thing that adults don't like to talk about."

Mr. Peeling went on to say that the next exhibit would be the Webb Collection, featuring interactive "Funucational" displays including a plastic Cambodian boy who can be picked up, turned upside down, and have his penis put in your mouth.

Thanks to chickpea, who doesn't believe that everybody poops.

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They've previously supported a Republican here or there to make-pretend they were evaluating candidates without reference to party.

Another pretense is dropped.

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Upset?

Thanks to Larwyn.

I wonder if it's ever been determined how blacks vote when there's a black Republican candidate on the ballot. There's the famous belief that blacks overpoll with whites, presumably because whites want to seem nice and liberal to pollsters so they say they're voting for the black candidate, even if they're not.

Could it be that blacks do something similar? They know they're "supposed to" vote Democratic, and they're not supposed to vote just for someone because they're black, and so they overpoll as far as their support for, say, Cardin.

Heh: Heather Wilson's ad. Her opponent seems to have a stroke when asked about taxes.

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How come he can't seem to get anyone to say nice stuff about him without paying them to?

Via Instapundit.

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Stoo Pid sends this. Similar to the "3 differences in the picture" gag below, a website asks people to figure their way through a maze, then a picture of Linda Blair from the Exorcist pops up.

A guy videotaped a coworker being shocked by this. Pretty funny.

If I can link to a clip from a Gmail, this might just work.

I'm a Moron Update: Okay, so that doesn't work.

It worked for me... but I guess that's because I was logged into my Gmail account.

Here is the clip on break.com, thanks to Gunslinger.

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Well, dismal science, anyway. It's an analysis using economic techniques. Which I think just means regression analysis. (Whatever that is.)

Julia Corker

Anti-rape crusader.

Homophobic Messaging From The Left? It just occurred to me-- using the same reasoning the left used to brand the Playboy Bunny ad "racist," it seems to me there's a nasty attempt here to play on people's homophobia--

If you vote for Bob Corker, Julia Corker might try to date your white daughter.

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Can you find the three differences in these photos?

Thanks to Dad.

Weird: Allah tells me this is real.

It's an audition tape from 1984 or so, offered to Stanley Kubrick. It's painful.

An IMDB search reveals no credits for the actor involved, at least under the name he gives on the tape.

Which doesn't mean it's fake, given the acting chops on display here.

Supposedly... This is Brian Atene, in a sequel, twenty years later. Smells like a parody.

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