If you can stand it, Nurse Ratched is reprising her role as moderator of todayÂ’s Democratic debate in Iowa.

Strangely, there will be no Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel even though yesterdayÂ’s Republican debate included Allan Keyes.

Streaming video here.

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What are we going to do with Dr. Helen? She's refreshingly -- bracingly, actually -- pro-male but sometimes her impulses get the better of her.

Like this link -- the "Instapundit link of silent approval" she learned from her husband -- to a whining "Recovering Nice Guy" who mewls that all those women he befriended and never actually asked out didn't fall in love with a gutless pussy.

As semi-recovering pussy myself, I have some sympathy for my fellow pussies who can never seem to nut up enough to actually take the bold step of clearly and plainly announcing their romantic designs on a woman (wow, what a concept), but not so much sympathy that I can condone this destructive behavior or encourage self-styled "Nice Guys" to keep up with their pussy behavior.

You're -- we're -- not "Nice Guys." You/we want exactly what the "Not Nice Guys" want from women, which is to say Sex, Companionship, Sex, Romance, Sex and Sex in that order. You/we are just too a-scared to say so. Which isn't Nice. It's just cowardly.

Compare to this post from Pretty Numbers. The backstory is that a guy was smitten by a woman he saw on a train; rather than saying so, he said nothing, but then later wrote on Craigslist about his instant love for the woman. Well, improbably, the woman found out about the post and wound up dating him. So he's being celebrated for... being a pussy and hitting the lottery.

I imagine he's being celebrated by other pussy men who are sitting there thinking, "YES! YES! That's the way to do it!" Not so much.

You know what I think should make the media go in a frenzy? Some guy that actually has the balls to talk to a cute girl on the subway. Because really, all of these 'Missed Connections' on Craigslist are entertaining and fun to read and all, but how many of them pan out in the end? Answer: Not many. And now just because one cute story did pan out, and it happened to be between a Drew Barrymore-esque Aussie intern with flowers in her hair and some generic hipsterboy, it instills hope where hope surely has no place.

Eh. Fathers, tell your sons: There's nothing noble or "nice" at all about pining silently for a woman you've befriended under false pretenses. Although asking a woman out is probably a futile action in most cases -- hey, if a woman likes a guy, she'll eventually chase him -- at least asking the question gets it over with and frees a guy up to stop wasting his time and move on to asking the next woman he's attracted to. And it just might be, maybe, that women are less than attracted to guys who don't have the sack to ask them out on a simple date.

Young men should be told this.

1) A girl worth pursuing is, well, worth actually pursuing, not just hanging out with as a "buddy" in hopes that she'll screw you when drunk or emotionally vulnerable. Maybe she'd like an actual courtship and pursuit rather than an awkward hook-up that winds up going on for a couple of months.

2) Girls like flattery and it's flattering to have someone express clear romantic interest.

3) If you think she's out of your league she probably is and you should move on. Still, never hurts to ask. See point 2, supra. At least if you've actually told her she's attractive you've identified yourself as having the exquisitely discerning taste to find her attractive, which puts you head and shoulders above most guys (see point 4, infra).

4) A distressingly high number of American men suffer from advanced male pussy syndrome. Pretty much if you nut up and ask a girl out you're already ahead of 80% of the pussies in your pussy cohort.

And most importantly:

5) Stop being such a little pussy bitch and ask her out already, you homo. Are you afraid of a fucking girl? What the fuck's the matter with you? I could understand if we were talking about making a move on Martin Fucking Riggs from Lethal Weapon, but we're not. Queer.

It's too late for me. Or for most of us who suffer from this disease. But it's not too late for the next generation.

Via Hot Air on the first link and PetiteDov on the second.

AoSHQ Readers 90% Less Pussy Than Hot Air Readers: Too much whining and poor-me-ing at Hot Air.

Women like Anwyn and Baldilocks are telling them their act isn't working and will never work but they don't seem to want to take the medicine.

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I guess Lois Davidson wasn't kidding about doing whatever it takes to defeat Mike Huckabee. No idea whether this is running in Iowa or if it's a web-only ad, but it personalizes the one issue that has the most potential to end the Huckabee candidacy.

Update - The source of the ad has been identified.

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And now for a complete change of pace, have you seen Barneycam VI: Holiday in the National Parks? It's cheesy and hokey, but hilarious and sweet enough to give you a toothache if you have ten minutes to watch. The video selection is at the top of the column on the right.

It features President Bush and the fam, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the National Park Service, country music star Alan Jackson, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who proves to be a good sport once again.

I just noticed that the White House provides mp3s of the music used in the video. What a world, what a world.

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Earlier this year the Global Warming cultists were haranguing us about the melting glaciers of Greenland. It was all proof of the damage we were doing to the planet they wailed! Naturally, their cure was a curtailment of modern living and greater government control of everyone’s lives.

Well, turns out that bit of ‘settled’ science isn’t as settled as one might think.

But clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

“The behavior of the great ice sheets is an important barometer of global climate change,” said lead scientist Ralph von Frese of Ohio State University. “However, to effectively separate and quantify human impacts on climate change, we must understand the natural impacts too.”

The corner of Greenland where the hotspot was found had no known ice streams, the rivers of ice that run through the main ice sheet and out to sea, until one was discovered in 1991. What exactly caused the stream to form was uncertain.

“Ice streams have to have some reason for being there,” von Frese said, “and it’s pretty surprising to suddenly see one in the middle of the ice sheet.”

Meanwhile in Bali, Al Gore and his European allies are complaining the US isn’t promising to forgo future economic growth by agreeing to emissions caps and they are threatening to take their ball and go home.

European nations said they may boycott a U.S.-led climate meeting next month unless Washington compromises.

"No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting," said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. "This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target."

Here’s hoping both Bush and the Euros stick to their guns.

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Earlier this year the Global Warming cultists were haranguing us about the melting glaciers of Greenland. It was all proof of the damage we were doing to the planet they wailed! Naturally, their cure was a curtailment of modern living and greater government control of everyoneÂ’s lives.

Well, turns out that bit of ‘settled’ science isn’t as settled as one might think.

But clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the EarthÂ’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from EarthÂ’s insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

“The behavior of the great ice sheets is an important barometer of global climate change,” said lead scientist Ralph von Frese of Ohio State University. “However, to effectively separate and quantify human impacts on climate change, we must understand the natural impacts too.”

The corner of Greenland where the hotspot was found had no known ice streams, the rivers of ice that run through the main ice sheet and out to sea, until one was discovered in 1991. What exactly caused the stream to form was uncertain.

“Ice streams have to have some reason for being there,” von Frese said, “and it’s pretty surprising to suddenly see one in the middle of the ice sheet.”

Meanwhile in Bali, Al Gore and his European allies are complaining the US isnÂ’t promising to forgo future economic growth by agreeing to emissions caps and they are threatening to take their ball and go home.

European nations said they may boycott a U.S.-led climate meeting next month unless Washington compromises.

"No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting," said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. "This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target."

HereÂ’s hoping both Bush and the Euros stick to their guns.

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Congressional Democrats are pouty this morning:

White House spokesman Tony Fratto emphasized last night, "The White House is not part of any deal, full stop."

The veto threats in the face of Democratic compromises left party lawmakers in disbelief. Because of Bush's intransigence, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said that "we're going to have some horrific decisions to make over the next week."

Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi have agreed not to exceed President Bush's budget limits in the megasized spending bill under consideration, although they (weakly, and in a mother-may-I tone-of-voice) vowed to assign the funds to favor Democrats' priorities. The president was quick to point out that he has no shortage of VETO stamps.

Meanwhile, the theater continues on the spending bill. The House version will contain no funds for Iraq; Pelosi refuses to vote for it. That money will be added in the Senate version and in conference. As per the president's instructions, it will contain no retreat provisions.

Related: Senate Republicans Block New Taxes for Corporations.

Senate Republicans blocked a broad energy bill Thursday because it included billions of dollars in new taxes on the biggest oil companies.

Democratic leaders fell one vote short, 59-40, in getting the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. Democrats said they would strip the taxes from the legislation to move the bill forward.

Democrats rolled out a report yesterday purporting to show that taxing oil companies will not increase prices for consumers. That sound you heard at about 4pm Eastern was every economist in the world simultaneously rolling their eyes.

Finally: As Dave at GR told me would happen the last time I posted about the spending bill, Congress has turned to a third CR to buy more time. Moron-commenter someone thinks that Democrats have pulled a fast one. See his link in the comments.

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"Stick a fork in her, she's done," Dan Riehl says of this desperate high-risk play.

Unfortunately I think he may be right.

Are you as heartbroken as I am? Yes, we hate this horrid woman, but she was an "easy kill," as the DNC says, in the general election. And now all these morons are catching on to that and throwing their support to someone who could win?

Heart-ache.

It pains me to do this, but I suppose I have to make it official: In light of recent polling, the woman formally known on this blog as "Hillary!" will now only be known as "Hillary" or "Clinton," sans exclamation point.

She can have it back, but only if she earns it.

Update & Bump [Gabe]: The Clinton campaign is trying to distance themselves from this, probably because they realize just how bad it is.

Mr. Singer would not say whether the campaign distanced itself from the remarks or if Mr. Shaheen would be reprimanded.

In a statement later, Mr. Shaheen said, “I deeply regret the comments I made today, and they were not authorized by the campaign in any way.”

Yeah, whoops. I didn't mean to say that Obama is crazy about the drugs for my boss, Queen of Cankles. That was an accident. Really.

Unrelated Blind Link [Ace]: Heh, I think is the proper term for these.

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Huckabee asked if Mormons believed Christ and Satan were brothers but then, again claiming ignorance as a defense, claimed he meant nothing by it, he was just really asking a question he was curious about. See, he said, “I don’t know much about the [Mormon] religion…" He's just a naive, ambling country bumpkin seeking some information about a topic he knew little about, you see. Not once again deliberately attempting to demean a perfectly upstanding man over his faith.

O Rly?

In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention provocatively scheduled their annual meeting in Salt Lake City. The potential confrontation attracted a record number of mainstream media hoping for a dust-up (that never came). In preparation, the SBC distributed a 50 minute video entitled “The Mormon Puzzle” to 40,000 SBC congregations as well as publishing over 12,000 copies of a book entitled “Mormonism Unmasked."

The keynote speaker?

Mike Huckabee.

He's really a rather good liar, isn't he?

Not Sure If This Is The "Mormon Puzzle" Video... but it seems similar.

Note that's a link to Alternet.org-- a leftwing blog. Posted by old favorite Oliver "Filet O'Fish" Willis.

Since we're on the topic, Oliver, maybe we should examine Obama's early Muslim upbringing more thoroughly.

Yes, now that I ponder that, I think it's a rather good idea.

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Thanks to dri, from The Volokh Conspiracy.

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