Well, that's some objective news reportage. Put out a call for self-selecting global-warming alarmists to spin their wildest fables.

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Thanks to JoeJoe for the tip.

If you're so moved, dash off an email describing your own global-warming woes, like how your girlfriend never has an orgasm due to thickening "greenhouse gases," and post it here.

I just sent them an email of my own global warming horror story. Minor content warning.

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Not super-dirty, but...

Pretty safe for work: An odd way to start a court decision. Thanks to Patterico.

Also safe for work: Biker attends anti-helmet-law rally, then dies in a motorcycle accident on the way home.

Probably not safe for work: proof that soccer is gay-- her two friends are watching the game. GOOOOOAAAALLLL!!!

Exposing one nipple could just be a "wardrobe malfunction;" exposing both nipples is a fashion choice. Thanks to JohnS.

Most certainly not safe for work: American snipers scout the battlefield, searching for miscreants; find a couple of Muslim men known to be scourges of local farmers due to their savage chicken-choking practices.

Love the song. But the tempo is off. Given the high RPMs these guys manage, I'd have prefered that crazy carnival music they play whenever someone's spinning plates. Deedeedeedeedeedeedeedeedeedeedee... wrehhhhhh-errhhhh... wrehhhhhh-erhhhh...

I guess, when you get past the superficial differences, Muslims and Westerners aren't really so terribly different. We both love our families; we both seek a better world; we both furiously masturbate with our buddies in a filthy bit of shit-river.

I don't get how these guys keep turning to each other as they're punching the clown. What's the point of that? "Guess what I have in my hand, Achmed! That's right-- my tumescent penis! Your turn!"

Maybe they were watching the World Cup. And, looking back at that picture-- no jury in the world would convict them.

Thanks to steve_in_hb.

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Confederate Yankee quotes the Conventions for the billionth time to leftists who seem to have difficulty comprehending their simple language.

What part of "militias... must fulfill all the following requirements" don't they understand?

He quotes Jonah Goldberg, too, who cites my favorite example of when the Conventions don't apply -- to troops caught out of uniform. In dozens of WWII films, it's mentioned that if you're caught out of uniform, you can be hanged as a "saboteur or spy."

As I like to ask leftists: Do you think they were just making that up? Really? All of them using that exact same language? A screenwriter just sort of invented that detail for cinematic purposes? And then everyone followed along, because it sounded cool?

Uh, no. That's from the Conventions. A soldier who observes the letter of the Conventions in all its particulars is entitled, upon capture, to be treated as a Prisoner of War as described therein. Someone who dresses as a civilian, etc., is a "spy or saboteur" and, technically, a criminal.

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Sandy quoted Orwell's cutting rebuke to pacifists to our latest troll, who, hinting he knew the essay better than Sandy, demanded Sandy quote "the rest of it," by which he intended to suggest the rest of the essay argues against this clear statement.

It doesn't.

Here's the entirety of the section on "Pacifism;" the rest of the essay consists of rebuttals to charges levelled against him.

Anyone see any parallels between WWII pacifists and pacifists today?

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one.

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He says he's not a consultant. He's quite adamant on that point.

But that's really not what people are suspicious of.

They're suspicious that he has a symbiotic arrangement with ex-partner/co-author Jerome Armstrong, whereby Armstrong gets hired by a politician, Kos endorses that politician, and then said politician buys up ads on his website.

Kos says he only derives income from his ads and his book (which no one bought).

Fine. Let's say there is no secret money moving directly from Armstrong to Kos. (Kos almost certainly makes more than Armstrong anyway.)

Does Kos ever change his tune on a politician according to guaranteed ad revenue from Armstrong's clients?

That's the question, and Kos doesn't even address it.

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Muslim commedians on the "Allah Made Me Funny" comedy tour.

No, seriously.

One guy's joke? "Muslims around the world would stop hating America, if Americans would stop killing them."

BAH-zinnngggg!

No, really, that's a joke. Preaching to the recruited, as it were.

Much better is the cast of Peanuts dancing to Outkast's Hey Ya.

And "Brokeback Zarqawi" (language advisory).

Thanks to MikeK and The Corner.

It Belongs In The Comedy Section Update: Andrew "I'm a Silly Bitch" Sullivan likens the torture and beheading of our servicemen to belly-slapping of Muslim terrorist detainees. And, yes, he suggests it's our fault. Muslims never tortured or beheaded anyone until Abu Ghraib.

I doubt whether even Donald Rumsfeld will describe what has been done to two young American soldiers as a "coercive interrogation technique." But you never know. Some people wonder why I remain so concerned about torture, and the surrender of our moral standing with respect to this unmitigated evil. Maybe the news of captured, tortured and murdered Americans will jog their conscience. Or maybe it will simply reinforce the logic of torture-reciprocity endorsed by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales. As usual, complete silence from Instapundit. Almost radio silence from the Corner, except for the torture-advocate, Mark Levin, who is urging reciprocal atrocities. Give him points for consistency. And so the cycle of depravity and defeat deepens ...

I like how, on the day two American servicemen are found tortured and beheaded like animals by Muslim terrorists, Sullivan thinks that Instapundit is supposed to join him in condemning American behavior.

It's not even that Sullivan regards this as an interesting notion that would only occur to a certified psychokinetic atomic fissionist like himself. No, he thinks this is so self-evident that it should have occurred to everyone.

Muslims torture and butcher Americans; ergo, obviously, one must condemn American "torture."

The link goes to Dan Riehl, by the way, not Andrew Sullivan, so don't be shy about clicking on it.

Thanks to someone for that.

Kos agrees. Kos and Sullivan are as tight as ticks lately, eh? (Thanks to Allah of Hot Air for that.

After the jump, the Andrew Sullivan Freak-Out Advisory makes a return.

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Kaus looks at Jim Geraghty's timeline and finds a pattern: Buy one (Armstrong), get one (Kos) free.

He points out that Kos has previously altered his position --within 48 hours! -- on Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown after Brown hired Armstrong.

And we may have solved the mystery as to why the left of the blogosphere is littered with political ads, which seem in much shorter supply on the right.

Turns out Kos and Armstrong have "some connection" to BlogAds.

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Thansk to Rudy Giuliani's various quality-of-life initiatives, muggers always say "Thank you for your patronage" after they leave you for dead in a rat-infested alley.

Reader's Digest magazine carried out the tests by sending journalists to cities in 35 countries. London and Paris were in joint 15th place with a score of 57 per cent, while India's Mumbai came bottom with 32 per cent.

I have to say that, despite the general knock on the French for haughtiness to foreigners, I found the French to be pretty polite and helpful, by and large.

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After some paperwork is filed. Hopefully.

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The Reality-Based Community.

Strong. Smart.

Frankly, I see this situation as so important that I do not cultivate or initiate friendships or even associations with Neocons if I can avoid it.

I will tolerate opposing points of view (such as TRUE conservatism) if it is not accompanied by support for the Pig Bush.

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I have no Neocon FRIENDS. I no longer associate with Neocon RELATIVES. Support for the Pig Bush is not something I feel the need to tolerate anymore. I have to admit, if I know that you have Neocon FRIENDS, I may even avoid YOU.

This is not a matter of opinion anymore: we as "liberals" or anyone in opposition to the Neocon NeoNAZIS are the New Jews, and they would GLADLY put us in the camps if they could get away with it; make no mistake.

Andy the Squirrel says that many of the comments are "strangely sexual" in nature.

I didn't find any of those yet -- not exactly -- but I did find this. Apparently a leftoid woman is annoyed that her boyfriend won't propose to her. Turns out it must be because he's a dirty Jew "neocon:"

My asshole of a...

"permanent" fiance is a neocon, big time. So much for morals-he has no problem in continuing to live together and not get married. His decision, not mine. FUCKING HYPOCRITES, THAT IS WHAT ALL OF THE NEOCONS ARE!

Reality-Based.

Strong. Smart.

Layers.

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