As we are all aware, Ace had a period of light blogging due to real life issues. He then rattled the donation can. I think this article explains his behavior.

A criminal justice professor at Grand Rapids Community College has resigned after showing a video in class of a man having sex with a pig, students and a faculty representative said.

In college, I always found it endearing when Ace called his girlfriend "My Little Porkchop". I now understand the deep and disturbing truth behind that curious phrase. In light of rightwingsparkle's contention that Massachusetts is legalizing bestiality, Ace's recent relocation is also troubling.

Tip o' the hat to not_steve_in_hb.

Posted by: steve_in_hb at 12:52 PM | Comments (39)
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After pimping the "Bush knew the levees would be breached" story throughout the week -- when people actually read news -- AP issues a Friday night correction designed to be read by as few people as possible.

I know I mentioned this already. H/t Drudge for pointing out the "Friday night" aspect of it.

Why, you'd almost think the MSM was effectively a political party with its own agenda or something.

Posted by: Ace at 09:04 AM | Comments (62)
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Despite the media's best efforts:

The top U.S. commander in Iraq yesterday declared an end to a 10-day wave of sectarian violence that killed an estimated 350 civilians, asserting that many reports of violence were "exaggerated."

"It appears that the crisis has passed," said Army Gen. George Casey, giving a detailed public report card. "But we all should be clear that Iraqis remain under threat of terrorist attacks by those who will stop at nothing to undermine the formation of this constitutionally elected government. ... They tried to have this [be] the straw that broke the camel's back, and it failed."

Gen. Casey gave mixed reviews of the performance of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) that handled the bulk of street patrols and crowd control. This latest test will be a gauge by which to decide whether the ISF is maturing fast enough to allow thousands of American troops to come home later this year.

The media is scratching its collective liberal pointy-head and wondering, "Damn, what does it take to lose a war for America these days?"

Thanks to DDG.

Posted by: Ace at 09:01 AM | Comments (30)
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All part of his continuing campaign to be the last James Bond, genitals exposed or not.

Every year you hear the EON people yapping about how to make the Bond franchise more "current" and "edgy." Their ideas seem to fixate primarily on more graphic violence and more nudity.

They never seem to discuss plausible, clever screenwriting or competent direction. Nah, what's really needed to revive this franchise is cock.

Glad to see the James Bond franchise is going the route of huge box-office winners like Jade and Body of Evidence.

Of course, he won't be naked in the movie. The most you'll see is a partial ass-shot, kind of a gibbous moon. But they'll keep talking this up until the release date in hopes of attracting that all important Brokeback demographic.

Coming soon: Bond and Q reveal the real reason for the 30 year tension between them. It's not all about gadgets, let me tell you.

Thanks to agent Double-D G.

Posted by: Ace at 08:28 AM | Comments (21)
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Dollars to donuts 90% of these are right:

Jon Stewart opens with a gay cowboy joke, followed by a Cheney joke. This is perceived as "outrageous," a sign that Stewart won't be "muzzled." He turns to self-deprecation when the schtick becomes repetitive.

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Meanwhile, Theo Van Gogh remains dead.

Tim Robbins attempts a witty comment at the expense of the religious right. He remains mum on Muslims and cartoons.

Meanwhile, Theo Van Gogh remains dead.

When the announcer describes Brokeback Mountain, the phrase "develop a strong bond" replaces "engage in vigorous anal sex."

When the announcer describes Paradise Now, the phrase "humanizing" replaces "condoning suicide bombings."

...

Philip Seymour Hoffman says Capote is "a role of a lifetime." He thanks his girlfriend. Twice, to make sure.

Thanks to MH.

Related: Movie stars to arrive at Oscars in "green" vehicles.

Ah. So one day a year they'll take a twenty-minute ride in a Prius. The other 364 days of the year it's all stretch limos (for two or three passengers) and private jets.

They're really making a statement. And that statement is, "We're incorrigible self-righteous hypocritical assholes and we just can't stop ourselves. Please, someone-- help us."

Meanwhile, to top his suddenly energy-conscious Hollywood brethren, Ed Begley Junior will travel around that day on the shoulders of a homeless man fueled only by renewable ethanol.

He is scheduled to be charged with manslaughter later this week.

Posted by: Ace at 08:20 AM | Comments (20)
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More guts than the NYT:

John Caffery called it an act of cowardice by U.S. newspapers for not publishing controversial Muslim-based cartoons, so the local resident decided to take matters into his own hands.

On the corner of Daisy and Norwood drives, Caffery erected a large sign Sunday afternoon with one of the cartoons. It also carries a message about the subsequent rioting throughout the world caused by the publishing of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper.

Caffery couldn't understand why American newspapers opted to omit the cartoons but write about the rioting. He said newspapers were not giving the public all of the information they needed to understand.

So he decided to be a source of information, he said, because it's a matter of free speech. At the very least, he can let his local community know the rioting, violence and denouncement of the United States is over a cartoon.

"It's cowardly for (a) newspaper giving in to the pressure from the Muslims for these so-called offending cartoons," Caffery said. "Most of the cartoons are pretty silly. The one out there on the sign is probably one of the least offending cartoons."

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"It's not that I'm anti-Islam. It's that I'm anti-anybody who says you have to do as they insist or they're going to kill you."

When the institutions that are supposed to protect us from crime fail to do so, people turn to vigilantism. And when the institutions that are supposed to inform us refuse to do so, John Cafferty has turned to informational vigilantism.

Long live the vigilantes.

Posted by: Ace at 08:14 AM | Comments (6)
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I have been meaning to add some console gaming geekery, ever since Ace posted Dave at Garfield Ridge's Xbox 360 review, and since I have spend a whole lotta time on my own 360 time sink.

Anyway, I present a fine cartoon from GU Comics, because well, let's just say that I recognize myself (occasionally).

Posted by: Harry Callahan at 06:00 AM | Comments (5)
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This is just sad.

Kirilenko, the 25-year-old Jazz forward, reveals in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine that Lopatova, mindful of the presence of women who congregate around wealthy professional athletes, has granted permission for him to indulge himself, so to speak, with another woman once per season.
"If I know about it," Lopatova said Wednesday, "it's not cheating."

She's not going to leave him; she knows he is going to cheat. The athlete's lifestyle is one of continuous debauchery. Its to be expected.

So better to just say "He's not making a fool out of me, I'm just a really cool wife. Hell, I gave him an allowance! See, I can limit his roaming. I'm the one in charge here."

Sure you are dear.
Go buy something pretty.

Thanks to skinbad.

Posted by: LauraW. at 05:59 AM | Comments (64)
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Well, the "right-wing spin machine" was claiming the briefing Bush received spoke only of the levees being overtopped, or flooded over, not breached.

The AP story claimed he'd been told they'd been "breached," but, oddly enough, failed to quote the videotape as having recorded that.

AP Now admits: Bush had not been warned that the levees might be "breached" in that breifing.

Why is it important? Why did AP claim he'd been warned that the levees could be "breached" rather than "overtopped"?

In order to call him a liar, as he'd said, days after the event, that he'd never been warned the levees could be "breached."

Without that, they really had no story at all. So they didn't let that stop them. They just deliberately avoided quoting the actual language ("topped" or "overtopped") and wrote the word "breached."

They're beneath contempt.

Meanwhile, Wizbang thinks he's found a Rathergate connection in this newest made-up fake news story.

No wonder the liberal media are all such fans of Jon Stewart. He's better at fake news than they are.

Posted by: Ace at 07:38 PM | Comments (47)
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For Mike, the idiot.

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