Yes, I'm that damn lazy today. Atrios time.

It's not so much that I'm lazy as I can't find much in the news I'm really hot on posting.

That's where you guys come in.

I mean, Karl Rove is testifying again. So what?

Democrats want to take money from oil companies. Wow, I did not see that one coming.

Hispanic groups are whining that it's "open season" on Latinos. I guess I should be worried about that one, because no ethnic lobbying group has ever cried hate-crime to advance its agenda.

Sorry...

Hey, had a good couple of days there, though.

Posted by: Ace at 10:39 AM | Comments (63)
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It's not really that interesting, honestly.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, yeah, if the mother of the girl doing most of the punching was on hand, she should have stopped it.

On the other hand-- it really wasn't that brutal of a beating, and isn't there some value in letting kids, um, work out their problems on their own?

I'm not being facetious.

Sometimes kids fight. Yes, parents should break it up if present, but then, I don't know the details of this.

I don't know. My dad always had the same advice when it came to bullies, and it wasn't "Talk your problems out."

The video suggests the fight might have been gang-related, though.

Thanks to Craig.

Posted by: Ace at 10:32 AM | Comments (28)
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They can't release a movie about a massacre conducted by Muslims without asking "Why do they hate us?" Michelle vid-blogs at Hot Air.

Thanks to Allah.

Posted by: Ace at 10:24 AM | Comments (23)
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Weird animal sex stuff.

It's interesting that female hyenas are the more musclular and powerful, and socially dominent, gender.

It's even more interesting that alpha females give out androgenizing pheremones to make their offspring tougher, bigger, and more aggressive. A case of social status of the parent directly impacting the health, size, competitiveness, and competence of the children, which has somewhat sad implications for humanity, if such an effect is present in our species as well. (Which I bet it does.)

And then the article gets weird. So weird it gets put past the jump.
more...

Posted by: Ace at 10:21 AM | Comments (10)
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Some actually thought, given his enviro-rhetoric and the soaring costs of gas, he might back down.

Nope.

He's all for alterative fuel sources except when he might possibly see a glint of a windmill while on his yacht. Then it's just a horror.

I've been told you cannot see the windmills, or the land on which they will be built, at all from his Hyannisport villain's lair. You can't even see them; they're over the horizon. You can only see them while far into the water.

And for Ted Kennedy, that's just too much of a sacrifice.

Posted by: Ace at 08:53 AM | Comments (53)
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...two thumbs us from Todd Beamer's dad.

There are those who question the timing of this project and the painful memories it evokes. Clearly, the film portrays the reality of the attack on our homeland and its terrible consequences. Often we attend movies to escape reality and fantasize a bit. In this case and at this time, it is appropriate to get a dose of reality about this war and the real enemy we face. It is not too soon for this story to be told, seen and heard. But it is too soon for us to become complacent.

This enemy seeks to take away the free will that our Creator has endowed in us. Patrick Henry got it right some 231 years ago. Living without liberty is not living at all.
The passengers and crew of United 93 had the blessed opportunity to understand the nature of the attack and to launch a counterattack against the enemy.

Posted by: LauraW. at 08:25 AM | Comments (28)
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Dave at Garfield Ridge introduces us to a preacher who in turn educates us about God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and Earf and every GODDAMNED THING IN BETWEEN.

Go get saved, motherfucker.

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Six months for two of the offenders. The judge/hero rejected a bullshit plea bargain offered by the prosecution offering nothing but probation.

Tossing aside a plea agreement that called for probation, Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Michael Brennan sentenced four Democratic Party workers today to jail for slashing the tires of 25 vans rented by Republicans to take voters to polls for the 2004 presidential election.

Calling the vandalism more than harmless hijinks, Brennan admonished the four men, including the sons of two prominent Milwaukee politicians, for disenfranchising voters. The judge said he had received letters from Milwaukee County citizens upset over the crime.

"They see you tampering with something they consider sacred and that's the ballot box," Brennan said during a two-hour sentencing this morning.

Michael Pratt, 33, and Lewis Caldwell, 29, were each sentenced to six months in jail while Lavelle Mohammad, 36, got five months and Sowande Omokunde, 26, got four months. Each was also fined $1,000. They will be eligible for work release and were allowed to surrender to begin their sentences within two weeks.

Pratt is the son of former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt and Omokunde is the son of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.)

I'm going to go waaaayyy out on a limb here and guess the prosecutor who offered the deal is a Democrat, or the whole office is controlled by elected Democrats.

For all their screeching about voter disenfranchisement, they sure are willing to be very lenient when the right people are doing the disenfranchising.

Enjoy your time in jail, thugs.

Thanks to Purple Avenger.

Posted by: Ace at 08:36 PM | Comments (45)
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Snow as press secretary; Jeff Gannon risen from the ashes, Phoenix-like, as the forbidden Book of Skelos* foretold he would.

It's a good day to be alive, folks.

Thanks to Dawnsblood.

* Where? No, not Lovecraft per se.

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...has been ably put together by Ace Pilots.

Flopping Aces notes that chart looks like a chart the MSM, rather than bloggers, published. A chart showing the connections between the Swift-Boaters and Republicans, for example.

Funny how they make the latter, and are single-mindedly uninterested in making the former.

Flopping Aces has all sorts of cool links and quotes -- really, he's done a man's job in scouring the blogosphere and opinion columnists and news stories -- and I recommend his post heartily.

I'll steal a little bit. Remember, this is a nonpartisan woman. Which makes me wonder-- why does the DNC want to start a legal defense fund for her?

Perhaps thatÂ’s why the Howard Dean and others at the Democrat National Committee are looking to some of their donors to set up a legal defense fund for McCarthy.

“If Scooter Libby can have a legal defense fund and website, then McCarthy should have one too,” says a DNC staffer. “The DNC wouldn’t set it up, we’d have some of our donors do it on the outside. There are plenty of consultants willing to help on this one, we think.”

It's funny. Partisanship only exists on the right. We hear endlessly about the ideologues on the right -- the "neocon cabal" who have hijacked foreign policy -- but the media cannot even whisper the possiblity of a liberal clacque in the CIA and security apparatus.

And hints that there are six more criminal moles being investigated, including a couple of your favorite Senators.

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