Heh, heh, heh.

They can't even manage to put up numbers that would earn them profit in the biggest liberal market in the world?

As the manager consoled Spinal Tap after they were forced to cancel their Boston appearance, "Don't worry about it; Boston's not a big college town anyway."

Air America claims they will not "go silent" in NY on that date, though.

Hey, they could always try webcasting! Seems to be working like gangbusters for Jeff Goldstein, Karol Sheinen, and me!

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Remember, these people are considered innocent of conservatism until found guilty by a competent tribunal.

EXPLANATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE CONFUSED: Some wonder what the BTK killer is doing on the list. Or Mary LeTorneau.

It's simple. (I think.) The list is taken directly from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is "edited" by anyone who wants to log on, and any topic that is remotely political becomes a game of constant editing and re-editing by opposing political forces, sometimes with prankish intentions. (BTK killer, for example.)

As it's mostly liberals doing Wikipedia editing -- the whole "community" bullshit they stroke themselves over -- we're usually on the wrong side of the numbers and intensity of interest.

I'm told that anything to do with Palestein or Israel is the subject of furious minute-by-minute "Jews Suck!" "edits," for example.

Anyway, that's why those oddball names are on there. Ignore them.

Another Update: But this does cast doubt on some of the surprise entries on the list, as names like "Grace Slick" could just be added as a joke.

Meaning the only names on the list you can trust are those you already know to be Republican or Republican-leaning, making the list... a waste of time.

Except for obscure names, I think. Who would think to pull a prank with the name "Bob Gale," writer of the Back to the Future movies? (Damn, that was a tight, smart script.) The name is so random that my BS detector doesn't go off when I see it.

Back to original entry.

It's kind of sad how few there are. As I speculated on the webcast show a few weeks ago, I think it's a demonstration of how vindictively liberal Hollywood is. After all, even considering that actors, writers and such tend to skew liberal Democrat, surely there must be 10 or 15% of Hollywood types who are actually Republican. It couldn't be much lower than that.

And yet, because most B or C level celebrities have to worry about their next check (unlike A-level people like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bruce Willis), they keep silent about their politics.

We hear a lot of yap from B, C, and D level liberal celebrities. Apparently they don't fear their politics will hurt them in the business. But we don't hear much from the B, C, and D level conservative celebrities-- and, again, they must exist.

But they're quiet, because they know getting a job requires goodwill from a producer, and they know that there'll be less goodwill from a liberal producer or executive if it's discovered your guilty of Republicanism. In the first degree.

A lot of these are pretty well known-- Robert Duvall, for example. Most of us know he's a founder of a Republican morning club that meets monthly.

But there are some surprises. GRACE SLICK of Jefferson Airplane/Starship? And an admitted "life-long Republican" to boot? WHAT?

Emily Proctor? Well, she's from North Carolina, so it's not shocking, but I'd never heard she was a Republican before.

Tony Danza? Ummm... let's skip over that one. He's just "Republian-linked," anyway.

Ivan Reitman? I guess he got too rich off of Stripes and Ghostbusters to not be a Republican.

Kurt Russell is listed as a "Libertarian," but we know he just ays that to keep his liberal pseudowife happy. A lot of people use "libertarian" to soft-pedal their actual politics; hey, archliberal Bill Maher claimed to be a "libertarian" for years.

And of course Adam "I'm Not Related To Those Other Idiots" Baldwin, who, per female reader demand, will become the permanent Cowbell Beefcake Dude here at AoSHQ.

Flashback: Lara Flynn Boyle, Dirty-Kinky Rightwing Hot.

Not only is she rightwing, rich, and an unabashed Bush-booster, she occasionally strips naked on airplanes and tries to have sex with random passengers, which is definitely a part of the Ace of Spades Lifestyle (TM) that I haven't yet dared myself.

On Grace Slick and Liberal Bubblehead Bullshit Happytalk: I should have suspected Grace Slick was a conservative. Because conservatives, by their nature, tend to recoil in disgust from the happytalk liberal conventional wisdom.

She was asked, by some idiot interviewer, if she thought she was sexier now (at around 50 or so) than she was when she was twenty.

She could have done the Madonna/Sharon Stone bullshit about feeling "sexier than ever" and being in her "prime sexual peak" and that crap.

Instead, she told the truth. She said something to the effect of: "I hate getting old. I hate not being thought of as a sex object the way I was when I was younger. I hate no longer attracting the eyes of men who used to stare at me. Getting old just sucks."

The impulse to speak uncomfortable truths is a conservative one. Liberals claim to have this impulse, but they don't. They just endlessly regurgitate the same herd-pleasing nonsense and call themselves "courageous" for daring to say what everyone else is saying.

Now, mind you, I'm not saying older women can't be sexy or any of that. I'm just praising her for being offered a pretty stupid question and answering it with a bit of uncomfortable candor her moronic interviewer wasn't expecting.

And hey, she's right. It does suck getting old. There are benefits to it, but I haven't enjoyed a birthday myself since my 25th one, and I only liked that one because my auto insurance rates went down. Minus that minor benefit, I think I'd've preferred to remain 22 for the rest of my life.

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Well, back to being updated. I know I let them go for a couple of weeks, but I'm updating them again, pretty frequently, and only don't update them when there's too much going on on the main blog (like that Mary McCarthy blogburst a week ago).

Just so you know.

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At least that's the advanced estimate.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its “advance estimate” of growth in the inflation-adjusted (“real”) gross domestic product (GDP) for the 1st quarter of 2006.

Annualized GDP growth in the 1st quarter was estimated at a rapid 4.8% rate; growth was 1.7% in the 4th quarter of last year.

Highlights:

* The major contributors to GDP growth in the 1st quarter were personal consumption expenditures (which grew 5.5%), business equipment and software spending (which grew 16.4%), exports (which grew 12.1%), and federal government spending (which grew 10.8%). Imports, which are a subtraction from GDP, grew 13.0%.

* The inflation-adjusted change in private inventories subtracted 0.52 percentage point from the 1st-quarter change in real GDP.

Not very happy about that big federal spending component, but the economy is growing rapidly.

BUT...

...don't get too happy, because economists warn that "as a rule, growth tends to end at some point."

In related news, the NYT says it uses the word "but" so frequently in pieces about the Bush Boom because it has a "surplus of the conjunction" due "buts" being carefully rationed and stockpiled during the Clinton Expansion.

"We just didn't see the need to use too many 'buts' back then," a Times editor stated. "Pretty much we just highlighted the good economic news and let people use their common sense to realize that the good times wouldn't last forever, or that every postitive econmic factor comes, inevitably, with a negative or at least a cautionary note.

"But now we find ourselves with this but-load of buts, if you will, and we have to use them all up now before they reach their expiration dates."

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I'd've never guessed. These guys always seemed like such balanced, centered kind of cats to me.

So how does a pious Islamic extremist and potential terrorist pass the time? He watches hardcore porn. Investigators found that at least one of two Islamic extremist planning an attack on the US from Canada was in possession of hardcore pornography.

In Muslim societies the calls for all women to be covered completely and constant diatribes that sexual immorality is a threat to Islamic nations have become commonplace. Yet there is mounting evidence that terrorist extremists commonly view hardcore pornography.

Toronto-based TheStar.com recently reported that two men from the US state of Georgia met in the Canadian city with Islamic extremists to discuss potential terror strikes in the United States, including attacks on oil refineries and military bases, according to recently unsealed US court documents.

Liberals love accusing sexual prudes of hypocrisy. But don't expect any gloating here. They're swarthy, they're "multicultural," they're sworn enemies of America-- ergo, they're owed a modicum of respect and sexual privacy.

Via Fark.

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Um, yeah. So, like, rape-shield laws are supposed to protect women, to the extent constitutionally permissible, from explorations into their sexual history.

Is a criminal complaint, apparently found to be without foundation, now considered part of someone's "sexual history"?

Just because she accused someone else of rape before doesn't mean she's lying now... or even lying then. Just because charges aren't brought doesn't mean a crime wasn't committed.

But I have difficulty comprehending how this is not very relevant evidence as to her credibility.

An interesting thing about rape-shield laws: They always have a caveat built into them that sexual history can be introduced if required by the Constitution's general thrust that defendants be afforded a fair trial, and be allowed to introduce any evidence that tends to exonerate them.

This issue gets fudged a lot, but I can't see how you can constitutionally convict these men without allowing the jury to consider the implications of this past charge.

Otherwise, we might as well just say that anyone accused of rape has no right whatsoever to put on any sort of defense, or offer an alibi, because, hey, doing so contradicts the word of the female accuser and hence subjects her to psychic pain (or, as Susan Estrich would have it, a "second rape," this one in the courtroom).

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The attack is originating "internationally." Hmmmm... wonder who that might be.

Instapundit, Captain's Quarters, Powerline and other blogs hosted by Hosting Matters are all down due to denial-of-service attacks.

I wish they would attack this site. I could use a day off.

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Some say that Rosie O'Donnell reading her "poetry" aloud for an audience of millions is the Key to the Gate of Entropic Death.*

The stars cruelly align; the heavens spin in a sickening spiral; the Outer Dark intrudes into our own world, and Mighty Cthulhu rouses from his slumber of aeons.

If Joy Behar, Barbara Walters, and Rosie O'Donnell ever appear on the same episode, their collective yapping will call forth the destruction of the universe and the end of all life.

Which -- given that we just witnessed the cosmic horror of a team-up of Behar, Walters, and O'Donnell -- would be a glass-is-half-full sort of situation.

Thanks to Chickpea.

* As noted in both the Necronomicon and the Book Scrolls of Skelos.

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The liberals' favorite conjunction -- but, put to such good use in condemning terrorism but simultaneously apologizing for it -- finds itself working double-duty to undermine the powerfully favorable news on the economy the Times is sadly required to report.

Growth Accelerated in March, But a Slowdown Is Expected

And that's just the headline. "But," announced as an above-the-title star of the movie in the credit sequence, gives a powerful and moving performance throughout the piece, appearing in virtually every scene.

Related And Must-Read: Slapstick Politics looks at a different NYT piece -- loading all the bad stuf in the first paragraph, the one everyone reads, while only mentioning good stuff in the later paragraphs fewer people read -- and re-writes it the right way, with the lede ("economy growing like gangbusters") in the strange position of actually being the first paragraph. The lede is actually the lead, in other words.

At least when someone besides the NYT attempts to write an economic story.

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Which is why we can't extend the Geneva Conventions to enemies who do not respect the conventions in turn. Like Islamists.

Consider:
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