With a homemade Samurai sword.

...Flemons' lawyer says he is schizophrenic with a psychotic obsession with fantasy role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons.

Murder? I don't think so.

Williams arrived at his job the day of the killing armed with a homemade 38-inch samurai sword. Witnesses told police that Flemons appeared to hand Williams a piece of metal in a chivalrous manner, as if challenging him to a duel, before chasing him and stabbing him to death.

The medical examiner ruled that Williams died as a result of "multiple chop wounds to the neck."

Sounds like the "victim" just failed his saving throw against being a total pussy.

I'd love to get on that jury. I'd be a total OJ juror. He's a D&D player, so we must "send a mesage" to the country by setting him free.

We're just not going to be discriminated against anymore, America.

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Again, don't expect the media to pick up on this of their own volition.

Whether he also was in the Put A Boy's Penis In Your Mouth group is thusfar unclear.

This seems to be an odd group for a politician to be in. Married? What's he doing in a group about fucking? Smoking some shit? Is he a pot enthusiast?

I'm kind of unsure what a man this age is doing in the Facebook anyhow. (Do people older than 30 use this thing?)

Only Allen can directly inject it into the campaign, at the risk of increasing his own negatives.

But you can be damnsure had Allen had a similar Facebook membership, it would be headlined in the NYT and on CNN without any prompting from the Webb folks.

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In case you hadn't heard, US soldiers are dying in Iraq.

Page One, baby.

CNN aired the terrorist propaganda footage of the soldier being killed by a sniper. The New York Times now runs this a week from the election.

They claim it's necessary to inform the public. Even if such reportage serves the purposes of the terrorists, the public has the right to know precisely what's going on in Iraq (presented as shockingly, or sadly, as possible, of course).

Fine.

If it's the job of these organizations to report, no matter what the political consequences, will CNN and the NYT be as eager to report on Al Qaeda's celebrations of victory after a Democratic congressional win?

Or will they suddenly take the position that the fact terrorists want that victory lap in the American media is proof that we mustn't allow terrorist propaganda to infect our media?

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Emphasis added.

Jim Webb's novel is mentioned briefly towards the end.

Lynn Cheney's novel causes controversy in Senate race.

Who'd have thought this could have been so easily turned against a nonpolitician not running in the race at all?

Well played, CNN. Very well played.

The other cute thing is that the article quotes Webb and other Democrats insisting the book features "graphic" scenes of lesbian sex, and that Cheney denies this.

Gee, I guess it's an open controversy -- he said, she said.

Except it's not. If the passages were graphic, CNN would quote them and settle the dispute. But they're not, so they don't, leaving it up to readers to guess at.

I've read the supposedly "graphic" passages quoted, and they're not graphic. They're Harlequin-type melodramatic silliness, but I didn't see anything "graphic."

As Slublog says, I hate the media.

I Question The Pattern: It always seems to go the same way.

1) The liberals cry foul over something absurd.

2) They then use this as a justification to push something nasty they would have pushed anyway. (If no immediate source of fake outrage is available, they claim they had to do this to "get tough" and because of the now 18 year old Willie Horton non-scandal.)

3) The media goes after the story like gangbusters, sparing the Democrats of the inevitable loss of favorability rating caused by going nastily negative. So it's a win-win for the Democrats-- they get the benefits of negative campaigning, as it's the media, not them, most responsible for it, and none of the drawbacks.

I notice that Jim Webb's novel Lost Penis In Boy's Mouth did not becomne a media issue until the George Allen campaign took the risky step of making it an issue through a press release. Blogs like Right Wing News had it for a while, but the media refused to bite.

Notice how quickly, however, the media is willing to run with dirty laundry pushed to them from the left.

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Attacking a madrassa? Killing 70 to 80 terrorists? Including a couple of fairly-high ranking deputy Al Qaedas? Possibly hitting Zawahiri himself?

Niiiiccce.

Bill Roggio thinks this was actuallly a US strike, which the Pakistan government is taking "credit" for -- as the outrage over the Pakistanis hitting the site would probably be less than the Pakistanis allowing infidels to hit a "religious school."

He does have a point -- few countries can attack at night.

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Gotta be. These girls have to be plants. Otherwise, wouldn't there be lawsuits?

Still, pretty funny.

Thanks to Brett Weir.

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From Wonkette , which now seems to be officially a gay website, and which is crowing that it got the smooch story pushed into the MSM. (Well, defnining MSM as a "nobody columnist from the Atlanta Commercial Appeal -- but of course now all the MSM will pick up on it).

The justification for this? Well, of course, Republicans did it first (as they've noted the Ford clan seems to make most of its money as lobbyists), Republicans hate gays (no need to elaborate), and hypocrisy (about something or other).

As usual. The left apparently holds itself to very high standards, or rather they would, but they have to "get tough" against all these mean and racist and homnophobic attacks by Republicans.

Update: A parody anti-Ford ad, which is slightly more racist than the real one. (Moderate content warning.)

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The guy lives and breathes this stuff. So he knows what he's talking about.

What's with the polls?

In 2004, the electorate that went to the polls or voted absentee was, according to the adjusted NEP exit poll, 37 percent Democratic and 37 percent Republican. In party identification, it was the most Republican electorate since George Gallup conducted his first random sample poll in October 1935.

But most recent national polls show Democrats with an advantage in party identification in the vicinity of 5 percent to 12 percent. Party identification usually changes slowly. Historically, voters have switched from candidates of one party to candidates of the other more readily than they have changed their party identification.

Over time, big changes in party ID can and do occur. When I started in the polling business, in 1974, national party identification was almost 50 percent Democratic and not much more than 25 percent Republican.

Since then, Democratic party ID has fallen, particularly in the South, where many voters who considered themselves Democrats found themselves voting Republican for president and, increasingly in the 1980s and 1990s, for other offices, as well.

Republican party ID has increased. But that's a process that took decades. If you could go back in history and conduct polls, I don't think you'd find any, and certainly not many, two-year periods when the balance in party identification shifted from even to having one party 12 percent ahead of the other.

Worth reading in full. He also notes that while highly partisan folks might view this as virtually a presidential election year, for most voters, it's just another midterm election, and that means lower turnout -- and the possibility that strong GOTV efforts can have a large impact.

Based on Polls and Best Guesses... Real Clear Politics predicts an 18 seat shift in the House, with a range of 7 to 37.

The great unknowns still lurk. Has the country really moved five to twelve points in party identification in just two years? Are conservatives really so dispirited they'll sit this one out? Or is the Republican GOTV advantage even more potent in a midterm election, with fewer voters going to the polls?

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Even I'm offended.

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Looks like an honest mistake. Check it out.
Best quote:

"This should only be available to the most depraved people who want to corrupt their children."

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