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At 4:05 ET.

We'll talk with Brian Anderson, author of South Park Republicans, about his latest article in the City Journal, the left's new mission of shutting down talk radio and the internet in the name of "democracy."

I'll also attempt my Gay Slingblade impression.

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Why we fight? Islamofascists just can't handle female sexuality?

Well, you figure out your own pretext. It has to be linked.

Lots of dumb stuff at Allah's.

I enjoyed this:

Scarlett Johansson says she doesn’t believe in monogamy — that people weren’t meant to be with just one person. But she also says she wouldn’t date her “Match Point” co-star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers — because he’s too much like a girl.

“I don’t think human beings are monogamous creatures by nature,” she told reporters while promoting the flick. Still, Johansson says, she hasn’t given up on the idea of getting hitched one day. “When I decide I want to have children with somebody I think it would be nice to be married to that person,” Johansson says.

But don’t believe those rumors that she’s hooked up with co-star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Johansson says he’s like a girl — who likes gossip and shoes.

Rhys-Meyers is the guy who said his fortune was due to his hard work. Oh, yeah, and being picked out of a crowd and offered a modeling contract for his feminine-pretty features.

Not Rhys-Davies, You Dorks: Rhys-Meyers played an androgynous David Bowie clone in The Velvet Goldmine.

Come on now -- Rhys-Davies is DA MAN, but do you really think he would have been picked out of a crowd for his "feminine-pretty features"? You think this cat spends his time talking about shoes and shopping?

As a commenter said, Rhys-Meyers could only have played an elf, and only a kinda faggy one at that. Other elves would have looked at him and said, "Butch up, Chief. We're not going to be able to protect Rivendale with $2000 shoes and a cute Kate Spade man-purse."

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Kuato lives? Well, he does't live any longer:

A 35-year-old tractor operator, Igor Namyatov, has undergone surgery to be relieved of what had initially been diagnosed as a tumor, but turned out to be the embryo of his unborn twin brother, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday.

Doctors said the embryo belonged to NamyatovÂ’s unborn brother who had spent 35 years in the body of the patient.

Namyatov’s fellow villagers doubted the explanation given by the doctors. Some even surmised the object removed from Namyatov’s body was an extraterrestrial organism. “It is a pity they have removed it. They should have waited to see what would become of it later on. That would have been a great scientific find,” one of the villagers said.

What would become of it later on? They imagine he may have given birth via his shoulder blade?

Thanks to Matt.

Posted by: Ace at 10:21 AM | Comments (18)
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I hope he's not planning his own personal unilateral strike:

Diplomacy is not just talking. Diplomacy has to be backed by pressure and, in extreme cases, by force. We have rules. We have to do everything possible to uphold the rules through conviction. If not, then you impose them. Of course, this has to be the last resort, but sometimes you have to do it.

Publius says he has mixed feelings about this. While no one should be thrilled about entering a third war in five years, I no longer think there is any option but force. Iran's President is a religious millenialist maniac, who views the detonation of a nuclear weapon as a trumpet calling his Mahdi to earth.

War is horrible, but more horrible still is a bomb in the hands of a man who believes that God Himself has put him on earth to nuke the cities of the infidels.

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...according to Pakistani officials.

They dragged the bodies away in order to claim only civilians were killed.

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Members of the Mexican Army have repeatedly crossed into US territory to protect drug dealers:

In one 2000 incident, more than 16 Mexican soldiers were arrested by border agents in a small town west of El Paso, in Santa Teresa, N.M., after Mexican soldiers fired on the agents, said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing the agents.

None of the agents was injured in the gun battle, and U.S. State Department officials forced the border agents to release the soldiers and return them to Mexico with their weapons, Bonner added.

And that's not the only documented incident, of course. There have been over 200 incursions of Mexican military members into US territory since 1996. And I don't mean as tourists.

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It sounds like BS, but it's in the Telegraph, so...

At first, 30-year-old Mr Taylor was amused when Ziggy started screeching "Hiya, Gary" everytime it heard Miss Collins's mobile phone ring.

He even saw the funny side when the parrot began making kissing noises when the same name was mentioned on television or radio.

But the truth finally dawned as the couple snuggled alongside one another on the sofa and Ziggy blurted out, "I love you, Gary" in her voice.

Miss Collins, 25, a call centre worker, broke down in tears and confessed to having a four-month fling with a former colleague.

Her confession not only ended their two-year relationship but also led Mr Taylor to parting with his pet because it kept repeating the offending name.

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I guess that "content of his character" stuff is all so passe now.

SondraK has the first ad for Nagin's chocolatification campaign.

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If you want to send a message, give out a stupid award:

"Paradise Now" wants the viewer to understand the mind-set that produces such acts as suicide bombings -- because, as Abu-Assad says, to understand is a first step forward.

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Abu-Assad says he believes that impotence fuels the bombings. And his characters' words underlie that thought as they go through their daily lives in occupied territory that the film presents as an airless, hermetically sealed prison.

"Under the occupation, we're already dead ... In this life we are dead anyway ... If we can't live as equals, at least we can die as equals" are typical refrains in the film.

The filmmaker says, "The feeling of the impotence is so strong that they kill themselves and others to say, 'I am not impotent.' It is a very complex situation, but the overriding umbrella is the injustice situation."

Also winning: George Clooney as best supporting actor in Syriana:

But politics played a major role at the Golden Globes, too, especially early in the evening when George Clooney was named best supporting actor in a film playing a veteran CIA agent in Middle East oil drama "Syriana."

"This is early, I haven't had a drink yet," Clooney joked when he took the stage to accept his award, the first award of the night. But he turned serious when acknowledging the film's writer/director Stephen Gaghan, as well as Warner Independent Pictures for releasing such a politically charged film.

"These are tough questions to ask, and I'm very proud that the studios are willing to ask these questions," he said about "Syriana's" take on the Middle East and the politics of oil.

And Rachael Weisz won for best supporting actress for the anti-capitalist pharmacological SPECTRE fantasia The Constant Gardner.

Oh, and of course lots of awards for Brokeback, Capote, and Transamerica (about a transexual).

It's hard not to imagine that this is the foreign press' idea of sticking it in America's eye, or, perhaps, trying to set a good example of taste and socialist pieties for their American inferiors.

Ah, well, let them have their night of giving out meaningless awards. We'll just have to content ourselves with controlling the world.

Thanks to Allah.

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