Viral ad? Maybe something like that. Someone tips that this goon is part of "Real Social Dynamics," a "date-coaching" cult that's supposed to get you laid.

Thus, the big finale about "Loving the Game." He's selling himself as an RSD success story.

I imagine those other cryptic acronyms like "AFC" have some meaning within the Church of Chooch as well.

That Crap Explained: Yeah, "Loverboy" is one of the "top" coaches at RSD. This article explains the weird acronyms and slang.

Like, "Sarging" is picking up women. PUA is "Pick-Up Artist."

And "AFC" is "Average Frustrated Chump," i.e., anyone who's not a PUA.

The link above mentions the "anti-slut defense," which is woman's "defense" against sleeping with you when she really wants to. The "PUA's" have all sorts of strategies to defeat the anti-slut defense.

Yeah.

It's called "alcohol."

That'll be $2000, please pay the cashier as you pick up your PUA t-shirt.

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And yes, he then rounds it off by snarking:

But it is the United States and instead this NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.

The big problem with kicking this little sissy's ass is that it would be too goddamned easy.

Did I say "problem"? I meant "bonus."

Yes, it's a good thing that the WaPo and other media outlets don't hire, say, me as a blogger. I mean, it's not like I know how to do it. Better to hire some little pinko tosser who knows how to pull in literally dozens of eyeballs.

And I use lots of spicy language and stuff -- I mean, you can't have that sort of that sort of trash bringing disrepute on your organization, right? I might actually write something excessive and controversial.

Bonus Material: (Like how I did that?)

Who'd've imagined he'd look something like this?

Or (badly) write agitprop like this?

I can imagine some post-9/11 moment, when the American people say enough already with the wars against terrorism and those in the national security establishment feel these same frustrations. In my little parable, those in leadership positions shake their heads that the people don't get it, that they don't understand that the threat from terrorism, while difficult to defeat, demands commitment and sacrifice and is very real because it is so shadowy, that the very survival of the United States is at stake. Those Hoover's and Nixon's will use these kids in uniform as their soldiers. If I weren't the United States, I'd say the story end with a military coup where those in the know, and those with fire in their bellies, save the nation from the people.

Now, it's hard to tell because his thoughts are incoherent and his syntax is, let us say, hypermodern (not like those are important when it comes to writing anyhow), but I do think this gibbering little chimp is posting fantasias about armed insurrections against the legal, democratic government of the US, no?

No: Allah explains that what he's suggesting is that the military is now so divorced from public opinion it will feel the need to state a military coup against the government, in order to save the people from their own non-troop-supporting ways.

Slightly less controversial -- but not really. So he's not calling for a revolution, he's merely saying our troops and generals are inclined to stage an auto-gulpe. (I should note that I'm not sure I spelled that right, or if it's actually the right word, but I just couldn't write "coup" again.)

I'll accept that the soldiers, in order to soldier on, have to believe that they are manning the parapet, and that's where their frustrations come in. I'll accept as well that they are young and naïve and are frustrated with their own lack of progress and the never changing situation in Iraq. Cut off from society and constantly told that everyone supports them, no wonder the debate back home confuses them.

Well, one thing the soldiers are likely confused by is this entire "essay," because the shithead really, honestly cannot write coherently.

But he's expressing his rage, and, I suppose, that's all that counts for the left.

Who did he sleep with to get this gig? And can I get his number?

Not Just A Blogger! Apparently he's their "national security reporter."

Ah.

Well, I sit corrected.

I'm sure he brings this level of dispassionate, agenda-free professionalism to his expert reporting work as well.

Hugh Hewitt On Willaim Arkin: A Greenpeace activist (i.e., professional leftist), you'll be shocked to discover.

Dr. Rock wants to take this little tosser on a few patrols in Iraq.

I think that's inadvisable. He's too fat to easily carry and the smell of defecation would get pretty bad in the Iraqi sun.

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Don't be too worried; it took this scary-talent 20 years of working at SNL just be elected a "featured player" there.

Comedian and radio talk show host Al Franken has begun calling Democratic members of Congress and prominent DFLers to tell them he will definitely challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008, the Star Tribune has learned.

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The Star Tribune confirmed today that Franken made calls to at least two members of the Minnesota congressional delegation in Washington to break the news. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity, not wanting to pre-empt Franken's announcement.

"From his voice to my ears, he's running," said one House member, who relayed the remark via his press secretary.

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Franken, who grew up in St. Louis Park, achieved fame in New York as a comedy writer for NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"...

Ummm... "fame"? Sad, but appropriate, they've forgotten he actually was a cast member for couple of years.

Coleman has had little to say about Franken, but in an interview last year he said he expected him to be "a very strong voice for the far left" and a strong fundraiser. Republicans will try to exploit Franken's ties to Hollywood: Contributors to his political action committee included Barbra Streisand, Phil Donahue, Larry Hagman and Norman Lear from the entertainment industry, former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson and Minneapolis attorney Sam Kaplan.

That list of contributors prompted Coleman to say that Franken "obviously has a sense of humor" by calling his PAC Midwest Values.

It wasn't very obvious to Lorne Michaels, sadly.

One good thing about running for office: You can''t get cancelled for at least a year or so. Unlike, say, LateLine.

I dwell on his professional failures because 1, it's easy, but 2, it partly explains the man's bitterness and rage. He's watched class after class and cohort after cohort of SNL co-workers go on to have huge careers and become big honking movie stars, and yet he was the guy who... just kept working as a writer at SNL. With a bunch of straight-outta-Harvard-Lampoon 21-year-olds who were getting their sketches on a lot more frequently than he managed.

He was a bitter, vicious little jerkoff when he was 21. Imagine how that bitterness grew as he saw most of his contemporaries make it big, or at least land a movie here or there, while an endless parade of fresh-faced kids came in to do his job better than he could.

Well, perhaps he's finally found his niche. As they say, politics is just show business for ugly people.

Thanks to JackM.

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Content warning towards the end.

I started off feeling bad for this guy. I finished up wanting to beat his face in with a cinderblock.

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the Good News is that neither of your personalities will get prostate cancer.

In all five studies, the prostate cancer rates for schizophrenia patients were lower than expected in the general population. The overall rate of cancer at other body sites varied among the studies.

Possible explanations for the decreased rate of prostate cancer include the effect of antipsychotic drugs (either by protecting against cancer or by decreasing testosterone, or both), and genetic factors, Torrey suggests.

The lesson here? Learn to welcome the voices in your head. They may be the only thing standing between you and surgically induced impotence.

Science. Ain't it great?

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I'm less than sympathetic to the ATHF guys, because I don't find the show funny and am tired of people insisting that it is.

Numerous circuit-board type devices, representing an ATHF character, were found around the city, hanging below overpasses and the like. At least one was detonated.

Gridlock all over.

Thanks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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Biden's all impressed with Obama because, it seems, he uses soap.

I'm not sure I care about this story, but everyone else seems to, and I guess it's kind of fun to knock Joe Biden, who, ummm, is "running for President," he says, in much the same way this is a "very smart military blog."

P'Shop: El Capitan already made the Geico connection:

Obama Messiah Watch: The media and Democratic Party (but I repeat myself), being simultaneously stupid, out-of-control true-believer partisans, and pretty racist, is now just praising Barack Obama for crap that anyone can do. Slate's generally-useless Tim Noah has started the Obama Messiah Watch to document this phenomenon. First entry? Lavishing praise upon Obama for actually managing to take coherent notes as a student:

In [political science professor Roger] Boesche's European politics class, [classmate Ken] Sulzer said he was impressed at how few notes [italics Noah's] Obama took. "Where I had five pages, Barry had probably a paragraph of the pithiest, tightest prose you'd ever see. Â… It was very short, very sweet. Obviously somebody almost Clintonesque in being able to sum a whole lot of concepts and place them into a succinct written style."

And now Joe Biden is praising Obama's Christ-like perserverence in managing to shower five or six times a week.

Good Lord.

Coming Soon: Hillary! praises Obama's "moderation" in "limiting himself to just three or four carjackings per year."

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Hoovermerica:

The economy snapped out of a sluggish spell and grew at a faster-than- expected 3.5 percent pace in the final quarter of last year as consumers ratcheted up spending despite a painful housing slump.

The fresh snapshot of business activity, released by the Commerce Department Wednesday, underscored the resilience of the economy; it has managed to keep on moving despite the ill effects of the residential real-estate bust.

The economy's performance in the October-to-December quarter, which followed two quarters of rather listless activity, exceeded analysts' forecasts for a 3 percent growth rate.

The economy opened 2006 on a strong note, growing at a 5.6 percent pace, the fastest spurt in 2 1/2 years. But it lost steam during the spring and late summer. It grew at a 2.6 percent pace in the second quarter and then a weaker 2 percent pace in the third quarter. The fourth-quarter's rebound ended the year on a positive note.

For all of 2006, the gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 3.4 percent, an improvement from a 3.2 percent showing in 2005.

That's even more impressive considering the economy was hit by the housing slump. Investment in home building for all of last year was slashed by 4.2 percent, the most in 15 years.

GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced within the United States and is the best barometer of the country's economic standing.

President Bush, who had a trip to New York scheduled Wednesday to discuss the economy, was certain to point to the GDP figures as evidence that his policies are working and benefiting most Americans. But Democrats, now in control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years, counter that economic inequality is widening and that it's harder for America's middle class to get ahead.

With the Fed
facing a strongly rebounding economy" but leaving interest rates alone, the Dow looks on its way to setting a new record:

Has anyone kind of noticed the economy's been growing steadily and nicely since the Clinton-Gore recession of late 2000?

Maybe an easy-to-read picture will help our subretarded media understand:

Hmm... how does a very smart military blog mark this news?

Click on the pic for Blaster's Cowbell Theme

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Half an hour from now, at 2nd & 58th.

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Instapundit links this as a knock on a celebrity for filling our air with LETHAL CARBON DIOXIDE. I guess it is that, but Travolta's kept his mouth shut on politics, right?

Whatever. It's cool. The guy wanted to be a pilot, so he became a licensed commercial pilot. And then he added a six-man crew to his own private airline.

And apparently he just flies everywhere. Like, the local WaWa. He just takes the 707 to WaWa when he wants a slushee.

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