Odd doings.

Thanks to Riehl World, who has this bit on liberals fleeing America. Fingers crossed!

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Hey, we all know how tempting power is. You're sitting on top of the world, people telling you how wonderful you are every time you turn around. You start thinking maybe they're right.

And that maybe you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel. Maybe you should share your beatific visage with everyone, as a symbol of national pride. more...

Posted by: LauraW. at 08:34 AM | Comments (18)
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Not a single link.

This is motivated by NRO linking him for his genius idea to start posting YouTube music videos from the eighties.

Well, he sure is an innovator.

He sure is.

It's not so much that I made this up -- I didn't; Bill from INDC's been posting funny, odd, or obscure videos on his site for a while -- it's just that Andrew Sullivan is pretty egregious about swiping video and the like from other people's sites without the courtesy of a hat-tip.

So, I started with the Five O'Clock Flashbacks and then, a couple of weeks later, so did Sullivan. And of course I know he reads the site; after all, he called Michael or JackM. (forget who) a "Caesarist" when the guest-poster wrote about Rumsfeld.

Video shows up on another site he reads -- like The Malcontent -- and then it's on Sullivan the next day. No hat-tip, nothing. (The Malcontent posted one of the smoking-gun swipes -- he must have gotten the video I'm thinking of from The Malcontent, because The Malcontent was just about the only guy in the universe to post it, because it wasn't very good at all. The Malcontent posts lots of funny stuff, but the thing I'm thinking of was lame. And yet this lame-ish piece of video shows up on Sullivan's site the next day. It's just wasn't the sort of "viral video" that people would be frantically emailing each other.)

So, he steals, he swipes, and does so without acknowleging with a hat-tip, which is standard in the blogosphere, even when it comes to "enemy sites."

If there's anyone shabbier in this regard, I don't know of him.

And to compound it, he then gets links off of it from heavy hitters like NRO.

It's time for everyone to simply stop linking him altogether. Quote him if you like, take big chunks of his turgid, hysterically overwrought prose to fisk, but don't link him. He not only considers himself above other bloggers, but above the common courtesies and rules of bloggers.

Well, he relies, as everyone does, partly on links to drive his traffic.

Deny him that traffic unless and until he abides by the rules that everyone else does.

The rules of linking are suspended when it comes to someone who won't link to their source themselves. No, you can't pass off his writing as your own (who would want to?), but it's enough to just say it comes from Andrew Sullivan, without providing the link.

Posted by: Ace at 05:04 PM | Comments (92)
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Okay, idiots. Either start spending or don't expect too much money to flow in later.

Unrelated, But Annoying: NRO Links Andrew Sullivan... for his genius idea to start posting YouTube music videos from the eighties.

Well, he sure is an innovator.

He sure is.

It's not so much that I made this up -- I didn't; Bill from INDC's been posting funny, odd, or obscure videos on his site for a while -- it's just that Andrew Sullivan is pretty egregious about swiping video and the like from other people's sites without the courtesy of a hat-tip.

So, I started with the Five O'Clock Flashbacks and then, a couple of weeks later, so did Sullivan. And of course I know he reads the site; after all, he called Michael or JackM. (forget who) a "Caesarist" when the guest-poster wrote about Rumsfeld.

So, he steals, he swipes, and does so without acknowleging with a hat-tip, which is standard in the blogosphere, even when it comes to "enemy sites." If there's anyone more shabby in this regard, I don't know of him.

And to compound it, he then gets links off of it from heavy hitters like NRO.

Posted by: Ace at 04:39 PM | Comments (17)
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FADE IN:

INT. COUNTRY-STYLE LIVING ROOM -- DAY

James Webb sits on a chair, leaning forward in a serious posture, before a fireplace. He speaks in DIRECT ADDRESS.

WEBB: This election is about choices. Important choices. Choices that will affect you -- in terms of your paycheck, your educational costs, your very security.

My opponent thinks this is an election about smears and mud-flinging. About frivolous attaks that will only distract you from the real issues.

Like issues about your children. I have a vision of an America, and America where every child is guaranteed a good education in good schools, where every child is fed, and where every child is picked up by his ankles to have his penis put in his father's mouth.

Choices.

My opponent, who never served in this military, wants to make a mockery of my war experiences. Well I wore the uniform -- I've earned my right to speak out without being attacked by a man who spent Vietnam playing football. I wore a Kevlar jacket; he wore shoulder pads.

What kind of man do you want representing you in the Senate? If you want a strong defense against a three-receiver set, well...

[chuckling]

... then maybe he's your man. But if you want the sort of man who has new and bold ideas for this country's defense -- ideas like searching not 2% of the cargo that comes into this country, but all of it; ideas like fighting the war on terror in ways that help us, not hurt us; ideas like turning your son upside down and putting his penis in your mouth -- then you should consider voting for me, James Webb.

I learned a lot as a soldier in Vietnam. I saw a lot of courage, and I saw almost as much carnage. I'll never forget the day me and my best friend, Sergeant "Rowdy" Davis, were on two-man patrol on an overgrown trail in the hills north of Khe Sahn. Well, "Rowdy" had to stop by the side of the trail to relieve himself-- and at that moment, a deadly jungle boomslang bit him right on his, well, right on his manhood. I took immediate action, running off to get a clear radio link to the MASH unit back at base, to find out what I could do to save him from almost certain death. After getting advice from a Vietnamese doctor with years of experience with boomslang venom, I rushed back to Rowdy.

"I've got some good news and some bad news," I told him.

"The good news first," he said, on the edge of falling unconscious.

"The good news," I said, "is that you can be saved, so long as I suck the poison out of your penis."

"Okay," he whispered. "What's the bad news?"

"The bad news is that it'll be two hours before a medical chopper can evacuate us, so we're going to have to make the magic last."

And then I put his penis in my mouth. I also ticked his prostate, because I figured that would keep the venom really flowing nicely.

Choices.

That's what we face this November 7th-- a choice between a man whose greatest achievement is having been born to a famous father, or a decorated veteran who will gladly put your penis in his mouth if it gets bitten by a snake.

Or even it's just a little itchy. [Wink.]

And for the ladies, if all that penis in mouth hotness doesn't do it for you-- well, let's just say I've got more bananas than Dole, if you know what I'm sayin', and I think you do. I'll make the great state of Virginia into a horny woman's dream.

I'm James Webb, and I hope you'll make the right choice.

FADE OUT.

Oh, Please... The normally sober Michelle Malkin is shocked, shocked that Allen is fighting back with Webb's smut.

And Dean Barnett, also pretty even-keeled, appreciates the political efficacy of this but is pretty disappointed by the most idiotic campaign in all of Democracy, as he calls it.

When Democrats stubbornly refuse to announce their actual positions, how can you actually engage them on "the issues," I wonder?

Yes, let's by all means take the high road. Just make sure you read down to the end of that link to learn that Allen's divorce files are being rifled through, and that the coming charge is that Allen once spat on his wife.

But yeah -- let's not resort to dirty tactics or anything. Because that's as demeaning as taking your son, turning him upside down, and putting his penis in your mouth.

Rank The Following In Order of Preference:

Winning Smart

Winning Stupid

Losing Smart

Losing Stupid

That's my order, right there. Seems some people have a different opinion as regards the second and third most preferred choices.

Posted by: Ace at 01:46 PM | Comments (78)
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The trouble, however, is the use of the theme from The Exorcist as background music, because that conjures the idea of The Devil, and it is well-known that blacks have sometimes been called "savage devils" by racist Tennesseans, and therefore this ad is a racist attack on Harold Ford, Jr.

A more sober, thoughtful ad would use his quote -- "I like football, and I like girls" -- and note that another person liked both football and girls: O.J. Simpson.

And then the ad could ask, "Harold Ford, Jr. -- how do you know he won't saw your head off? 'They' do that, you know."

And then maybe somehow imply he's a homo, too. Like, I don't know, morph O.J. Simpson's face into Harold Ford's, and then into RuPaul's, and play I Will Survive (with extra drums for extra racism) while "O.J. RuPaul Ford" goes on a stab-crazy murder-spree.

That's the kind of ad that would motivate me, a conservative racist homophobic retard.

But I repeat myself.

Thanks to Brett Fuckin' Weir.

Posted by: Ace at 01:07 PM | Comments (27)
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Let me get this straight: We're determined to win this war. We're willing to harshly coerce terrorists to get vital information, and commit 150,000+ (maybe more) of our boys to Battlefield Iraq to win it.

However, we're above using the left's tactics against them to defeat a war opponent who will work to undermine our efforts if he's elected?

That's where we stand?

When did that memo get circulated?

Need I remind everyone that this was a safe Republican retention until the Macaca/"Felix" Allenowitz/Not-A-Real-Southerner-Except-When-It-Comes-To-Colereds bullshit got started up by the left, with the Washington Post's able and eager hand-maiding?

The seat was put into jeopardy by stupidity. Why should we not use stupidity to push it back into the safe column?

I don't get it.

Someone will have to explain this to me, pound me over the head until I get it, lift me up by my ankle's and put my penis into his mouth until I understand.

How about a trade-off? We won't discuss this somewhat-silly issue when the media agrees to finally begin discussing an important one it has all but embargoed.

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM | Comments (73)
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Jim Geraghty thinks the "penis in his mouth" stuff is playing rather badly in Virginia.

Was this a shabby thing to make a big deal out of? The Allen campaign emails to say it's not shabby, it's playing by the rules established by... Keith Olbermann:

Here's something to remember about the Webb/book story — this is Keith Olbermann talking about the sex scenes in Scooter Libby's book:

"We have beaten the hell out of Libby for this, and deservedly so. If a Democratic White House official had written this book, his head would be on a pike somewhere."

Well, now a Democrat HAS written that kind of book. So it's funny to see how quickly the Democrats have rediscovered the irrelevance of fiction writing.

Let me put this in terms the moronic Ace of Spades readership can understand:

You may not like the fact that your DM is running a Tolkein-light campaign, with fairies and unicorns and lots of gaywad magic, and maybe you'd prefer a grittier, Conan-styled milleu, but, you know, you play in the game-world your DM has created. You may think it's frickin' queer that your DM is giving out Cloaks of Prismatic Spray like they're going out of style, but you're a fool if you don't grab them when you're handed them and spray your sissy-colors around.

Ham Nation: Looks at the silliness.

Actually, it gets a little sillier, as her update shows.

You know that hunter in the Corker commercial? The one wearing hunter's camo paint on his face?

Not camo paint. Blackface.

I'm not making this up.

Webb's Campaign Responds: So surprising to see such prickly words coming out of their mouths.

I noticed the "I served, so I am beyond political criticism" meme is alive and well at Dem central.

Funny, Republican veterans are never thought to be beyond criticism.

Posted by: Ace at 10:54 AM | Comments (97)
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Okay, I admit, this one is plainly over the line. I don't even think they discuss a single policy issue in it, and "Jesse" seems to be a racial code-word to invoke the memory of Jesse Helms. ("Jerome" seems to be an attack on political advisor/ex-blogger/astrological investment counsellor Jerome Armstrong.)

Whispered at the very end, sub-audibly, and very possibly in violation of campaign advertising rules, is what sounds like "Ah-ha-ha, yeah, that's it, that's it," but is actually a disguised manner of saying "Paid for by the White Friends of Bob Corker."

And then, if you listen closely, the narrator asks, "How do we know Harold Ford really likes girls at all? Kind of has a sorta Cambodian air to him, if you know what I'm saying."

I'm outraged.

And Instapundit is a racist for voting for Corker.

(Hey, that sort of attack seems to get Andrew Sullivan hits, so...)

Posted by: Ace at 10:21 AM | Comments (22)
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Show up, bring your signs, bring your drums.

But not jungle drums, as that would constitute a racist attack on Harold Ford, "gutter politics" designed to appeal to Southern racists who hate people like Harold Ford, Jr., who are as black as the Ace of Spades light beige as a tastefully subdued Genevieve make-over on Trading Spaces.

Yeah, I said it. If no one told me he was black I'd've guessed he was one of the George Hamilton sons who didn't bang Shanon Doherty.

Posted by: Ace at 10:02 AM | Comments (6)
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