I mean another made-up atrocity. A new fake atrocity, joining the likely fake atrocity at Haditha, and the also likely fake atrocity at the place which isn't Haditha.

A Marine sings a silly song about a fictitious insurgent ambush, and CAIR and the media demand a full investigation into a shooting that never happened.

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Seen on New Orleans souvenir T-shirts:

Got Water?

Saving New Orleans, one drink at a time (with red cross logo)

I stayed in New Orleans for Katrina and all I got was this lousy T-shirt, a new Cadillac and a plasma TV.

This is admirable. I don't think there are a lot of natural (and man-made) disasters where the folks turn around and immediately start poking fun at themselves.

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Very sad. The entire household seems to be as emotionally promiscuous as Andrew Sullivan.

I hadn't been following the exit polls or the running tally of the California special election, but when the results came over the television it was like a bomb went off in my house.

My oldest daughter let out a wail of grief that I haven't heard since Alito became Chief Justice. Since we lost her mother it's been tough keeping things together around the house, but we try to manage. The trouble is, I just happened to be changing the little one when the shriek went up downstairs. Well, I turned to find out what happened and lost my handle on her little sister who took off - leaving behind a trail of urine and excrement that I donÂ’t think I'll ever be able to get out of the carpet in the hallway. I donÂ’t know what's worse, the stuff that's soaked into my carpet or the stuff that's leaking out of the White House.

Trying to calm down my oldest daughter while trying to bring order elsewhere just made the frustrations of the last six years all the more palpable. The buring in my gut turned to nausea and well, now the mess is even worse. I feel like I'm looking down at the state of the entire damn country right now.

Apparently CheChe's daughter came with a factory-installed Uro-Rectal Fascism Early Warning System.

Thanks to WuzzaDem.

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Maybe not, but he may just be defeated by anti-war opponent Ned Lamont. (Last seen looking very uncomfortable as Kos and some other lunatics cavorted around him.)

If defeated in the primary, he may run as an independent. And if he wins-- would he vote to give control to the party that had voted against him?

Joementum!

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The Party of Ronald Reagan?

Appropriations members have already vowed to fight any move to strip spending from the bill. “I’m not going to take their crap,” Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) said last week. The Illinois appropriator said he included several projects for his district and would fight to keep them all.

“They think they’ve gotten a little steam building, and we’re going to have to shoot them down,” LaHood said. He ripped RSC members this year on the House floor for successfully stripping $507 million in construction projects from a military spending bill.

Before vowing not to vote for the GOP, bear in mind that his opponents -- the ones who want to cut spending -- are also Republicans.

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Read this entry over at the Daily Kos.

And this similar entry.

Allah thinks it's fake.

JPod suggested it might be Greg Gutfeld having fun with the Kossacks, but apparently he wrote to Derbyshire saying it wasn't him.

Funny stuff. I don't know if it's real or not. As was observed at NRO, it's kind of sad that we can't tell parody from the real Angry Left.

More... A Kossack points out to CheChe that she has cried tears of shame with her daughter a whole boatload of times.

CheChe responds:

I'm simply not going to apologize for loving and comforting my daughter.

She happens to be very concerned about the course of this country and if you want to make fun of that, well, good for you.

There's just not enough time to always be writing a new story each and every time something happens, and since this is what happened, it seems fair. Since we lost her mother there hasn't been a lot of free time around here.

Sounds like a spoof. The Kossacks, to their credit, seem to think CheChe is a troll.

One wrote:

Your post was so poignant, my schnauzer & I started sobbing and sobbing and...now the rug is all wet. I love you.

My God, some of them do have a sense of humor.

Thanks to Allah, who, on a much more serious note, runs down the Haditha story. Which is beginning to look a lot like no crime at all, except for a crime of circumstance.

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He said he'd reduce it by one-half by 2009; he may manage it this year.

Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early.

Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%, over last year, the Treasury Department said Monday. The Congressional Budget Office said receipts have risen faster over the first eight months of fiscal '06 than in any other such period over the past 25 years — except for last year's 15.5% jump.

The 2006 deficit through May was $227 billion, down from $273 billion at this time last year. Spending is up $130 billion, or 7.9%.

The CBO forecast in May that the 2006 deficit could fall as low as $300 billion. Michael Englund, chief economist of Action Economics, has long expected a deficit of about $270 billion this year. Now he thinks there's a chance the "remarkable strength in receipts" will push the deficit even lower.

If Bush and the GOP porkers in Congress had held the line on spending, we might be talking surplus in a couple of years.

Of course, Clinton's suprlus came chiefly through economic growth as well. Though, again, he seemed more interested in restraining growth than Bush does, and the Republican Congress was much more eager to hold the line on spending with a Democrat as president.

Which begs the question: If Republicans thought holding the line on spending was a good idea with a Democratic president, shouldn't they be even more eager to do the same favor for a Republican president?

The message seems to be that spending is good, a favor done for a president from your party.

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"Baloney," he responds.

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We're going to a monthly schedule. I was informed today that our first monthly show would be on the 27th, at 3 (not 4), but there was no definite word about whether or not we'd be doing a show today.

After sending out lots of emails and trying to call Rightalk on the phone-in lines and guest-lines, I've gotten no answer all day. Weird. It's like they're shut down today.

So, no show. I don't even know if there's a repeat.

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So absurd.

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