Just got an email from someone claiming to be from a publicity firm called Kas Publicity, representing republican "writers and leaders" in the country.

They do have a website... but I have no idea if it's real website.

Or an Indymedia scam.

Because they want, of course, a name and a physical address to send books to.

Not sure if they're legit.

Anyway. So it goes. I can't even reply by email because I know that without an anonymizer program you can find out someone's street address from an IP with the right $50 computer program.

Even if this is all on the level, it's the sort of crap one of the Kosmonauts would try. So, if you're a conservative blogger, have a care about to whom you send your information to. Or even to whom you respond to by email.

I really have to get myself an anonymizer.

Not Related, But Also Not Worth A Whole Different Post: I've been Fly Fisherman-alanched.

Eff Instapundit. The Fly Fisherman website is the true Traffic Santa.

No more crap about nanotechnology Reynolds never links anyway. Now, every third post here is going to be Keeping The Proper Mix of Tension and Slack On Your Line and The Eternal De-Bait: Live Vs. Lure.

I hate the lure pussies.* A bunch of godless, half-a-man fairy-fishermen. What, too afraid to get your hands all covered in fly entrails, ladies?

* At least I assume they're the liberal pussies in this debate. If they're not, then I'm really against the other guys.

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This jagoff reminds me of a boxer with a 5 and 27 record constantly "baiting" the champ about when he's going to get his shot at the championship belt.

How about you manage to go three fights without laying on your back like a whore on a double-shift before we start talking title match, Hugo?

As Crosblog notes, he says he'll wreck his economy if he's invaded.

He already wrecked it, of course. So now I guess he threatens a double-secret probation wrecking.

Posted by: Ace at 10:16 AM | Comments (10)
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A unhinged man and frequent commenter to Indymedia murdered a cop "for the cause" and then bragged about it to his insane cronies.

This is the danger of this sort of crap. They are implicitly and sometimes explicitly encouraging the most delusional members of their community to take what the left used to euphemize as "direct action" against political opponents.

In any population, there are at least one in a thousand members who may be violent, easily provoked to violence, or violently insane. These assholes are encouraging and facilitating such people to go out and kill someone. It's what they all want; there is no other reason to put someone safety in jeopardy if you don't want that safety to actually be jeopardized.

And they're providing the moral support to the eventual killers. Political murderers do not act out of normal personal reasons for committing murder, as most murderers do. They don't kill out of jealousy, feelings of betrayal, to collect on an insurance policy, or that sort of thing.

They kill because they think it will help "the cause" and also because they believe they will receive the adulation of people they respect for committing the murder.

Anyone doing this is morally guilty of solicitation to murder. A prosecutor would have a hard time proving that (though one might try when Indymedia is successful in recruiting, encouraging, and abetting an assassin), but when the first shot rings out, there's a good chance a prosecutor may well try.

And not to continue harping on the counter-threat, because I don't like threats, and I don't like political violence. But rest assured, Indymedia and Democratic Underground political-snuff-film-fans, that the first shot that rings out will not be the last.

You know that "cycle of violence" you twits are endlessly nattering on about? You think that only happens in the middle east?

Violence against a conservative figure, which you are encouraging and facilitating, will of course inspire a more unhinged member of the right to attemp a payback killing.

And when you lose one of your own, you will then be forced to confront your complicity in turning American politics into somewhat more bourgeois version of the Middle Eastern armed political militia regime.

Related: Confederate Yankee also notes that Editor & Publisher's Greg Mitchell seems to be arguing, in a pussyboy fashion, for a "conversation" about the actual overthrow of the Bush regime, through illegal means.

Oh, he doesn't actually say that, but he notes that the legal remedies seem impossible, and yet, of course, something must be done.

What sort of something? Oh, I don't know. Something, though. We can't impeach him, and we certainly can't allow him to remain President for the duration of his term.

Something must be done, though. We need to have a "conversation" about what exactly.

Will no one rid me of this troublesome President?

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From Radio Blogger:

HH: I want to ask you first about the New York Times story that lawyers for NBC News, New York Times and Time Magazine are resisting federal subpoenas to produce appropriate documents, and eventually witnesses, in the Wilson case or the Libby case. Appropriate for these media outlets which are baying for the head of Scooter Libby to hold back on what might exonerate him?

CH: Well, look. They brought this on themselves. I still think the press should defend itself from too much intrusive prosecution or prosecutorial action, but the press demanded that one of the most repressive laws on our books be used in the Wilson case, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the author of which, Senator Robert Dole, has repeatedly said, and said to me personally, was never intended for this kind of thing, was intended only to punish rogue agents who gave away real people in the field, and certainly should never have sent Judy Miller to jail. And now, they've made a rod for their own back. Now anything that happens, there will be a prosecution over...where there'e supposed to be a prosecution over who told the New York Times that the National Security Agency was wiretapping Americans. There's been a terrible collapse of, and surrender of, the 1st Amendment in the last few years, and it's very largely the fault of a press that's lost all sense of proportion in its determination to get Karl Rove.

HH: And all sense of proportion, of course, we go back to your piece on Wilson and the uranium in Slate ten days ago, and obviously, the original kerfuffle here was based upon Joe Wilson's incompetence and overwhelming arrogance.

CH: To put it at its mildest. I mean, in case your listeners don't all know this, and what I've established beyond any doubt, is that a man named Wissam Zawahie, Saddam Hussein's chief diplomat for nuclear matters, he'd been Iraq's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, he'd been its delegate to non-proliferation conferences at the U.N., senior point man on nukes, went, on February 9, 1999, to Niger. Now I'm sorry. I cannot be brought to believe that he went there to discuss the price of goats or ground nuts. Niger and its president testified, was reported as testifying to, I think, the 9/11 Commission. No one ever comes here, save for, I think, yellowcake uranium. That's all we've got. Now Wilson's book, ridiculous book, called The Politics Of Truth, does not mention the name Wissam Zawahie in this connection. He says he knows the man from Baghdad, but that's in another connection entirely. He appears to have never understood that this had happened. So the value of his mission, as a means of ruling out an Iraq connection to Niger, is not even nil. It's less than nil. A positive threat to national security. It's a man who didn't even try to find if there was a threat coming up, and who missed something very conspicuous, and who has been, I have to...can't mince words, simply lying his head off about it ever since.

HH: Well this is why I welcome a trial, Christopher Hitchens, because he...

CH: Yes, absolutely.

HH: He will be in the dock, and he be obliged to answer these questions, don't you think?

CH: Let's bring it on. He lied about whether his wife, who works for the CIA, nominated him for the trip, which he did, on the grounds that he was, of all things, friendly with the Niger minister of mines, who had been in the 80's the supplier of Saddam Hussein's uranium. So they send a friend who has no curiosity, who doesn't discover that Saddam's point man on nukes has come calling a few months before, in fact. So I mean, it's astonishing, and I don't think, even though he's been so far hugely overpraised in the media, I don't think that his reputation can last very much longer. I think he's through.

Now who's being naive, Kay? Odd, because Hitchens doesn't generally strike me as a naif.

But now he suddenly believes that the media will have to modify its coverage based on... mere indisputable facts.

Has he been vacationing on Neptune for the past thirty years?

The media can support the reputations of the most odious if it sees that as a way to support their political agenda. See Sheehan, Cindy; Kerry, John; Gore, Albert Alphonse Jr.

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I don't think we'll ever forget where we were when we first heard the news that a President had just barely survived a crazed lepine assassination attempt.

Today in Odd History, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit during a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia. The rabbit, which may have been fleeing a predator, swam toward his boat, "hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared." President Carter was forced to swat at the vicious beast with a canoe paddle, which apparently scared it off.

Upon his return to the White House, Carter told his staff about the furry amphibian's assault. Most of them refused to believe him, insisting that rabbits can't swim (although since most mammals can swim, there's no reason to believe that rabbits cannot), and that even if they could, they certainly wouldn't attack humans, and certainly not presidents. Fortunately, a White House photographer had been on the scene, and had recorded the bizarre attack. The photograph showed Carter with his paddle raised, warding off a small creature which might, or might not, have been a rabbit. One staffer was quoted as saying, "You couldn't tell what it was." Undaunted by their skepticism, Carter had the image enlarged, and there it was--a killer bunny rabbit, apparently bent on assassinating the president.

It's the breathless, you-are-there style of this piece that really puts you in the middle of the action. I can almost see myself there, confronted by a swimming rabbit, fiendish nostrils a-flare, big teeth ready to nibble on your bum...

And I wonder, as men often do: Would I have risen to the occasion, like Jimmy Carter did? Or would I have cowered in the boat like a, umm, coward?

It's a question I'm glad I don't know the answer to.

Thanks to Allah.

Mistakes, Mistakes: Carter was already president in 1979. Duh, me.

"Lupine" means having to do with wolves, not rabbits. I meant "lepine," I guess, if that's a word, and even if it's not, it's the non-word I meant.

Thanks for proving that I'm such a moron, guys. I don't ever want to feel separated from my audience, as Dave Chapelle did.

Posted by: Ace at 08:42 AM | Comments (53)
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A silly story that's not really all that important except it's so embarassing.

Apparently the Golden Gate Blog writer has a couple of guys who always rise to his defense when he's being criticized. And, strangely enough, they seem to share his IP address.

Thanks to Allah.

Update: Just got an email from a fan, calling himself "Jack of Diamonds:"

Great post! Another one! God, you're so scary-smart and talented I get all moist just thinking about your luscious, luminous brain!

And I'm a guy! A straight guy! But I'm in heterosexual platonic love with you. That's how awesome you are.

Keep up the great work, you hot sonofabitch, you.

PS: It doesn't have to be platonic love, you know. I am willing to kiss you on your dirty special no-no place, if you want.

Wow! I'm really, really flattered! Thanks for making my day, "Jack of Diamonds!"

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Did I say scary? I meant hilarious.

"I swear to Allah, I will kill the infidel, by throwing hand grenades like a girl and mincing about with my AK-47 like Peter Allen doing a Che-Guevera-themed musical production number."

Thanks to Mike.

Further evidence that many of those most delighted by he idea of violence against their enemies are f'n' wussy losers who just got their asses beaten too many times in junior high and are looking for some payback.

Fortunately, most of them haven't experienced a significant sharpening of their combat skills in the intervening years.

Why can't these maladjusted dickweeds just play Dungeons & Dragons like a normal queerbait? Arms are made for lugging around dicebags and the Fiend Folio, you know.

The Islamist world needs to do one of two things:

1) Get bent, and, like, fast;

or, if that proves to be impossible, as I imagine it will be for most of these "brave warriors:"

2) Start rolling up a character. Hell, because you're newbies, we'll let you start out with two 18's, a +3 weapon of your choice, and old-school psionics (all attack and defense modes, of course).

If defusing the Muslim impulse for mass-murder means we have to run a "Monty Haul" campaign featuring more "roll-playing" than "role-playing," well, we'll just have to hold our noses and do some munchkin power-game DMing for these chumps.

It's a sacrifice, but one we should all be willing to make.

Posted by: Ace at 08:20 AM | Comments (17)
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All you babies are gonna be wearin' gold-plated diapers.

The number of new people signing up for jobless benefits last week fell sharply, a fresh sign that employers are feeling better about the business climate.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance dropped by 10,000 to 303,000, the best showing since the beginning of April. The level of new jobless-benefit filings suggest that the labor market is maintaining decent momentum.

Last week's decline was steeper than analysts were expecting. Before the report was released, they were forecasting claims to fall to 308,000.

MSNBC's Keith "Who?" Olbermann plans to note the drop in those seeking employment with a segment titled, The Labor Crunch: Corporations and Business Owners, the "Silent Victims" of Bush's Job-Seeker-less Economy.

And then he intends to imitate Letterman's mannerisms some more.

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Just coined the obvious term.

That's what these people are -- stalkers. Embracing a creepy stalker form of politics.

Stalkers like to know what the object of their love/hate is up to at all times, like to spy on them, like to let them know: You're being watched. Don't do something I don't like, like screw that guy I see at your house some times, or there will... problems. Who knows at this point precisely what I'm capable of?

That's what the left has been reduced to: becoming stalkers, jacking off outside the windows of people they love to hate, rooting through their trash like rats, leaving disturbing messages on their doorstops.

Creepy.

And pathetic.

Because while a stalker is scary, he's fundamentally a weak, cowardly, half-insane (or fully insane) loser.

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76-year-old poses as doctor, offering free breast exams" to women.

He went door-to-door offering his services.

Some women took him up on his free breast exam offer.

Which is further evidence for my theory:

All women, no matter how bright, are basically dumb.

You know you are. You date people like me. And people like every male reader of this site.

How f'n' dumb is that?

Thanks to the Skinner Sphere. Also thanks to Jack Straw.

Via Boortz, who says this guy is a dead-ringer for Ted Kennedy. Which, ummmm, he's not. Looks nothing like the guy.

Lending evidence to my other theory:

All men, no matter how bright, are basically pretty frickin' dumb too.

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