He made a pre-election promise to always keep our boys well-funded, even if he disagreed with the mission.

Another broken promise. Now he and his fellow Democrats are actively seeking troops' deaths by cutting their funding, in hopes that the fresh corpses they've produced might help them politically.

The MSM apparently missed this story completely, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear.

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Multiple "users" all originating from the same IP at the Clinton campaign account boosting Hillary on-line.

There's a new one Glenn Greenwald can add to his resume.

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The heraldic insignia of the Nordic Battle Group of the Swedish Army now features an emasculated lion. The move was taken by a special army board to avoid a lawsuit over gender discrimination, because some chick soldiers complained about it.

The image of a male lion, brandishing a sword and an olive branch, originally displayed its private parts but they were later edited out after protests from female soldiers, the Goteborgs-Posten newspaper reported.

Artist Vladimir Sagerlund, who designed it, does not approve.

'A heraldic lion is a powerful and magnificent symbol with intact genitalia, and I cannot approve an edited image,' Sagerlund told the newspaper.

Sagerlund said the change also indicated a lack of historical understanding since coats of arms adorned without genitalia were traditionally given to people who had betrayed the Crown.

I have a feeling there is more historical significance to that whole "betraying the crown/emasculation" thing than I really care to know.

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I don't really like country all that much, but I do appreciate they're willing to debase themselves by using humor once in a while instead of being too-cool-for-school poseurs like rock guys.

Lots of the f-word here. Like, every sixth word is the f-word. I don't mean "fig," I mean the four-letter one.

Fuck. Fuck is the word I mean by "the f-word." Just wanted to be clear on that fucking point.

Thanks to A Weasel.

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Sorry gang, forgot to put the weekly NFL picks reminder up. This day is gettin away from me.

Here's the standings; incidentally, all you morons were really nice to Slublog last week when he forgot to make his Thursday night pick and got locked out of the remaining games, and encouraged him just to make the picks and we'd add em to his total. So he emailed them to me.

He went 11/16, so see what your stupid gesture of kindness did? He's in second place now (at least in AoSHQI, which I'll update soon, now that I see PHenry made bail).

Standings [UPDATED w/ AoSHQII]:

1 PHenry 122
2 anotheranon 120
3 Slublog, a known communist 117
3 Mr_Wide_Stance 117
5 DrZin 114
5 Drew Bledsoe for HoF 114
7 Bart 112

There's another game tonight, so start pickin and grinnin.

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Journalism.

Neal Gabler, the prissy pussy from FoxNews, is forever defending reporters' mistakes in Iraq on the grounds that they're "brave" for reporting from there at all. His death-wish for William Kristol -- "go report from Iraq without body armor or an escort and I'll attend your funeral" -- is emblematic of this.

With all due respect no respect whatsoever to Little Johnny Shoe-Inserts, it seems to me that only reporters who actually brave anything should be credited with bravery. I'm not sure why I should praise a group of people who never leaves the confines of the relatively safe Green Zone for the dauntlessness. Even when reported "massacres" are less than two hours away along a major highway, they just sit in their hotel rooms and type up claims made by local stringers told to them over the phone.

There is an elevated risk of death in the Green Zone. But it's not exactly perilous, either.

If they're not actually going to go out and collect information where it can actually be found, why bother with the whole charade of basing them in the Green Zone at all? They can type up telephonic tips from stringers just as easily from New York, can't they?

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I'm afraid shaming only works for those with the capacity to be shamed all, though.

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Maybe.

For a lame debate (I'm told), Fred's "I'm not doin' the hand-raise thing" is really a sort of telling moment. It's a pretty cool move to tell the moderator, who everyone hates anyway, to go screw herself with her cherished bust of Sylvia Plath and then have the other would-be alpha dogs follow his lead, a bit embarrassed about it all.

The move really left Giuliani, Mitt, and McCain with no good options. They couldn't keep raising their hand, obeying this idiot schoolmarm, or they'd be following her, and they couldn't lower their hands or else they'd be following Fred. Either way, they were following.

Eh. Minor thing. Facing down Princess Bowl-Cut wasn't exactly proclaiming "Tear down this wall" but it's memorable.

Fred's also saying fuck the CIA:

“Nobody has any real confidence in the [U.S. intelligence] results they’re getting, Sen. Fred Thompson said yesterday while recommending that the U.S use more reliable British and Israeli intelligence instead. “We have a real problem with our intelligence community” and it needs to be rebuilt from “the bottom up,” Thompson said.

"I think that in the meantime we have to rely on other people. The British are helpful to us. The Israelis sometimes are helpful to us. In many respects, they have advancements that we don't have in terms of our intelligence capabilities," Thompson said.

Enough? Probably not. But it's something I guess.

YouTube: Some FredHeads knocked together this video to capitalize on the alpha dog moment.

ABCNews Goes To The "Tantrum" Well Again: Remember when Peter Jennings famously explained the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress by saying "the nation had a temper tantrum today"?

It seems part of the official ABC style guide. Because now the ABCNews Political Radar blog describes Fred's rejection of the "hand-show" as a "tantrum."

Liberals are really into following rules, aren't they? Brave maverick free-thinkers indeed!

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The long anticipated Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball is about to be released. Watching ESPN right now and big names, including Roger Clemens are in there.

Mitchell says baseball shouldn't punish anyone unless the the commissioner finds the conduct was so detrimental to baseball it is necessary.

The full report and a live stream of Mitchell’s announcement is available on mlb.com.

ESPN has a quick rundown of the report.

A couple of ‘highlights’:

Mitchell said: "For more than a decade there has been widespread anabolic steroid use" in baseball.

Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Pettitte were named in the report, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark -- if not an asterisk -- next to some of baseball's biggest moments.

On page 169 of the report, Clemens being injected with an anabolic steroid is detailed.

"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal,'' Mitchell said in the 409-page report.

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The long anticipated Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball is about to be released. Watching ESPN right now and big names, including Roger Clemens are in there.

Mitchell says baseball shouldn't punish anyone unless the the commissioner finds the conduct was so detrimental to baseball it is necessary.

The full report and a live stream of MitchellÂ’s announcement is available on mlb.com.

ESPN has a quick rundown of the report.

A couple of ‘highlights’:

Mitchell said: "For more than a decade there has been widespread anabolic steroid use" in baseball.

Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Pettitte were named in the report, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark -- if not an asterisk -- next to some of baseball's biggest moments.

On page 169 of the report, Clemens being injected with an anabolic steroid is detailed.

"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal,'' Mitchell said in the 409-page report.

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