Indian Brave Ward Churchill better bring heap big medicine if he want to scalp this paleface.

Thanks to Allah.

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Note to self: Irving, Texas, is no longer conducive to the Ace of Spades Lifestyle (TM):

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week.

TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving.

North Texans interviewed by NBC 5, however, worried that the sweep went too far.

At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar. Some of the suspects said they were registered at the hotel and had no intention of driving. Arresting authorities said the patrons were a danger to themselves and others.

Check this out:

"Going to a bar is not an opportunity to go get drunk," TABC Capt. David Alexander said. "It's to have a good time but not to get drunk."

He also added that a visit to Popeye's was "not an opportunity to eat fried chicken. It's to have a good time, but not to eat fried chicken."

In related news, North Irving police will begin randomly inspecting Kevin Costner when he drives through town, just to make sure his junk is not 1) exposed 2) in one of his hands or 3) in the hands of a random female passerby he forced to grab on it.

Thanks to Frank.

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Very odd and funny. This dog... well, it seems to have a grudge against its left rear paw, and its left rear paw seems to insist on provoking it. Like it's actually its own sentient entity.

Thanks to Scott.

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The part-time reporter/full-time covert DNC operative has once again turned in a masterpiece of biased "reporting:"

When the president starts a sentence with "some say" or offers up what "some in Washington" believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows.

The device usually is code for Democrats or other White House opponents. In describing what they advocate, Bush often omits an important nuance or substitutes an extreme stance that bears little resemblance to their actual position.

He typically then says he "strongly disagrees" — conveniently knocking down a straw man of his own making.
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"Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day," President Bush said recently.
Another time he said, "Some say that if you're Muslim you can't be free."

"There are some really decent people," the president said earlier this year, "who believe that the federal government ought to be the decider of health care ... for all people."

Of course, hardly anyone in mainstream political debate has made such assertions.

As Powerline points out, people have made these assertions. And they're quite mainstream.

They also are curious as to whether Ms. Loven will be highlighting similar uses of straw-man arguments and other logical fallacies uttered by Democrats. For example, perhaps she could not that Democrats who advocate withdrawal contrast their bug-out-now strategy with Bush's plan to stay in Iraq "forever." Perhaps Ms. Loven will point out that no one has ever suggested America remain in Iraq "forever"?

Don't count on that.

By way of background: Ms. Loven is married to an environmental activist and major Kerry supporter in 2004.

So here's another "straw man" argument, according to Loven:

Here's another of Ms. Loven's "straw men":

Running for re-election against Sen. John Kerry in 2004, Bush frequently used some version of this line to paint his Democratic opponent as weaker in the fight against terrorism: "My opponent and others believe this matter is a matter of intelligence and law enforcement."

Bush probably said that because he actually listened to what Kerry said, unlike, apparently, Ms. Loven:

The war on terror is less -- it is occasionally military, and it will be, and it will continue to be for a long time. ... But it's primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world -- the very thing this administration is worst at.

Funny, what with Loven's husband having been cited by the Kerry campaign as one of its leading endorsers, you'd think she would have paid more attention to Kerry's speeches.

Perhaps she's just upset Bush didn't state Kerry's quote precisely accurately. But that wouldn't seem likely to bother her, with her great difficulties in accurately reporting Bush's "famous 16 words" (about uranium in Africa) from the 2003 State of the Union address.

(If they're so famous, I've wondered before, why can't Ms. Loven ever seem to quote them correctly?)

It's just hysterical that the media maintains this claim that they're not active political partisans. Again, we just never seem to see these sorts of stories on Democrats. If they were unbiased, shouldn't contentious stories like this be about fifty-fifty on either political side, more or less?

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They got 'im.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a two-day chase through Central Park before it was finally captured Wednesday morning.

At one point, the searchers had the coyote cornered near the park's ice rink, but the clever creature jumped into the water, ducked under a bridge, then scampered through the rink grounds and ran off.

The coyote was captured somewhere north of that area, Parks Department spokesman Ashe Reardon said.

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A poster with the legend "racism takes many shapes" features interlocked, unified, black puzzle pieces, and a Lego piece outside of the group.

Legos are of course Denmark's most famous toy export.

Lots of reactions at the Blogometer.

Let's just cut to the chase: There is actual racism and then there is "racism." "Racism" isn't racism at all, it's just a bit of bullying and browbeating by people who want something others won't give them -- money, preferences in hiring and admissions, loose immigration policies -- and claim an invidious motivation for not being given what they want in order to get what they want.

The Danes are "racist" because they clung to their belief that freedom of expression was important -- more important than not giving offense to the amazingly easily offended. Whatever.

It's not working anymore, guys. You've cried "racism" one too many times.

The UN is a corrupt joke. Fuck 'em all. It's hardly even worth commenting on anymore.

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Completely screwing up the voting, apparently, and perhaps actually threatening the show's... um, integrity? Is that the right word, or am I crackhead who got hooked on the wroonnnggg stuff?

I haven't watched the show this season, but Serial Lurker writes:

Not that I watch "American Idol" or anything but I've been flabbergasted to see that little dweeb Kevin Covais avoid being in the bottom three last week.



That is until I found out why:



There's a site called "Votefortheworst.com" that seems to be driving the American Idol producers crazy because the VFTW readers keep rallying behind the worst singer.



American Idol claims that VFTW has "no influence" over the votes yet the name of the site has been filtered from the American Idol message boards and it's been mentioned by MSNBC, USA Today and E! Entertainment. And of course how else could you explain Chicken Little's survival thus far?

And I've heard there's been some odd results, with singers generally regarded as among the best winding up in the bottom three.

No matter how popular American Idol is, there are more people who hate it, I'm guessing, and will gladly sabotage the show this way if they have a chance to. Which, of course, they do.

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Ummm, no, I'm not talking about The Postman.

I'm talking about his name being mentioned in connection to the "major A-list star" who went to a real massage parlor, but expected a happy ending, so he forced the masseuse's hand down to his little Elliot Ness. And then, supposedly, he pleasured himself.

He denies it, and is supposedly "furious" to be mentioned in connection with the case.

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Good old bit from Something Awful.

The photos are both sad and funny. This woman just has packed her house full of stupid shit.

Thanks to Ron C. for the reminder.

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This seems so stupid that it must be a joke. But it looks like a local NBC newscast about people who.. think there's a leprechaun in their neighborhood.

He only comes out at night, and, get this, when you shine a light on him, he suddenly disappears.

One guy has a what looks like a piece of PVC piple he calls a "leprechaun flute," that's been passed down for a thousand years.

There's an "amateur sketch" of the leprechaun, which looks very, um, amateurish. It looks like a kid in a hat. Basically, it looks like Kyle from South Park, only more crudely drawn.

One resident has a theory: "It's a crackhead that got hooked on the wroooonnnggg stuff."

I think that might be said of many of the leprechaun hunters as well.

Thanks to JD.

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