You're soooo good!

Thanks to "The Bruce Dickenson."

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I bet that's only the tenth or twelfth time that headline's been written.

Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow, but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway.

The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs.

"It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it's a real rarity."

He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.

When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

"It's a pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."

"It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it," he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.

He did eat it, and reports it was "tasty." Transexual spider-deer meat always is.

Al Gore immediately held a press conference blaming the proliferation of transexual spider-deer on global warming.

Thanks to Bridget.

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Shockingly enough, the focus will be on Russian reactors:

The investigation is now focusing on a trail of the material across half the globe, with Moscow heavily implicated in the dissidentÂ’s apparent assassination.

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While speculation over the death of the former intelligence agent focuses on his vocal criticism of the Kremlin regime, identifying a chemical link between the polonium and its source within a reactor remains the most compelling and, so far intractable, evidence sought by the authorities.

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Detectives hope to determine when the sample was manufactured through examination of its decay products while other analytical techniques may reveal further details of the facilities used. Ultimately, the use of polonium 210 appears to indicate a sophisticated approach by some well-connected and determined assailants with access to a reactor. UK detectives aim to determine which one.

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A "surge" of firepower. It's about time.

Had he done this before the elections, the Republicans might have kept power, and who knows, Baghdad might already be nearly stabilized.

The Bush administration is leaning toward temporarily sending as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, even as the Democrats taking charge of Congress demand a drawdown of forces.

U.S. officials say the increase is needed to make a new push to stabilize Baghdad and to bolster efforts to train the Iraqi army. The emerging plan is facing opposition from Iraqi officials adamant that more U.S. forces aren't the answer. U.S. military commanders in Baghdad have drawn up plans for the country that don't require any new personnel. The debate over whether to send additional U.S. forces to Iraq is the most visible manifestation of the high-level tumult roiling the Bush administration as it works to find a way forward there ahead of a presidential address to the nation early next year.

Although White House officials stress that no final decisions have been made, several aides involved in the internal deliberations say President Bush and senior administration officials appear receptive to calls to temporarily send 15,000 to 30,000 new U.S. forces to Iraq to bolster the 140,000 troops there.

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Pentagon officials said they would send additional U.S. forces to Iraq only if the personnel had a clear military mission. "We would not surge without a purpose," the Army's top general, Peter J. Schoomaker, told reporters yesterday. "And that purpose should be measurable."

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Deploying more U.S. forces to Iraq would be deeply unpopular in the U.S., where polls show that an increasing majority believes the U.S. is losing in Iraq, disapproves of the administration's handling of the war and wants to see a fixed timetable for a military withdrawal.

A bit of fact-free agendizing from the liberal WSJ reporters. Where is the poll stating that more troops, on a temporary basis, would be unpopular?

Rewrite: Deploying more U.S. forces to Iraq would be deeply unpopular in U.S. newsrooms.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this week found that declining public support for the war had brought Mr. Bush's overall approval ratings down to 34%, the lowest recorded to date in his presidency. The poll showed 35% of those surveyed favor a phased troop withdrawal "beginning immediately," up from 27% in July.

35% is a majority, you see.

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Live action Underdog movie coming.

If this does well, how far away could the much-anticipated Hong Kong Fooey movie be away?

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No link for teh gheys. The lefties keep walking right up to the line of wishing Malkin to die in Iraq. They won't come right out and say it, but they keep writing death-wishes in an ambiguous way, to retain plausible deniability.

While Malkin's taking the big risk of going to Iraq, the writers and editors of Wonkette will be touring the dangerous DC gay disco circuit.

Editors? Did I say editors?

Michelle is going because thereÂ’s an Associated Press source in Baghdad who she thinks doesnÂ’t exist, and, like Curt Weldon, she knows only her and some other no-name blogger can find the truth.

Soy causes brain damage, too.

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I suppose we know all we need to know about the work habits of your typical movie reviewer.

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At some point this becomes criminal.

The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath today that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.

Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security of Burlington, said his lab found DNA from unidentified men in the underwear, pubic hair and rectum of the woman who said she was gang-raped at a lacrosse party in March. Nurses at Duke Hospital collected the samples a few hours after the alleged assault. Meehan said the DNA did not come from Reade Seligmann, David Evans, or Collin Finnerty, who have been charged with rape and sexual assault in the case.

Meehan struggled to say why he didnÂ’t include the favorable evidence in a report dated May 12, almost a month after Seligmann and Finnerty had been indicted. He cited concerns about the privacy of the lacrosse players, his discussions at several meetings with Nifong, and the fact that he didnÂ’t know whose DNA it was.

Under questioning by Jim Cooney, a defense attorney for Seligmann, Meehan admitted that his report violated his laboratoryÂ’s standards by not reporting results of all tests.

Did Nifong and his investigators know the results of all the DNA tests? Cooney asked.

“I believe so,” Meehan said.

“Did they know the test results excluded Reade Seligmann?” Cooney asked.

“I believe so,” Meehan said.

Was the failure to report these results the intentional decision of you and the district attorney? Cooney asked.

“Yes,” Meehan replied.

At that answer, several people in the packed courtroom clapped.

The immediate case is going to get tossed, and then the real criminal investigation can begin.

Thanks to AtS.

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Live Free... Or Die Hard.

Looks good. John McClane versus terrorists. Not just thieves pretending to be terrorists. Although, of course, they're not Muslim.

My guess? Serb. I have no idea why, but Hollywood has decided that Serbs are the one group you're allowed to make terrorists.

Hopefully they'll begin the movie with the climax missing from the last one.

Thanks to Slooey.

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Scorpions in a bottle.

The ruling Hamas group accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.

"What a war Mahmoud Abbas you are launching, first against God, and then against Hamas," senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya told a Gaza City rally of 100,000 Hamas supporters, who chanted "God is Greatest" and fired guns into the air.

At least 32 Hamas supporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah were wounded by gunfire from Abbas's forces, hospital officials said. Several were in critical condition.

Tensions were at their highest in a decade and followed months of failed talks to form a unity government between the ruling Hamas Islamist faction and Abbas's once-dominant Fatah.

Hayya said Hamas would not agree to holding an early election or a referendum on the issue, a move that Abbas could announce in a speech planned for Saturday in an attempt to break the political deadlock.

Hayya did not say what Hamas would do if Abbas made such a dramatic announcement.

The fresh violence broke out after Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Authority, accused a Fatah strongman and Abbas's presidential guard of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh outside the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Wait-- this is a Reuters story. I see Arabs/Palenstinians/Muslims behaving badly, but no blame at all cast on the US or Israel. What gives?

Although Israel was not involved in the latest fighting, its decision -- with US backing -- to prevent Haniyeh from entering Gaza with $35 million intensified the standoff in which Haniyeh's convoy came under fire late on Thursday.

Ah. My faith is restored.

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