Also, Personal Jesus.

They're the guys that did the lounge version of Get Down With The Sickness in the "Leisure Montage" in Dawn of the Dead. They're called Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, and they have other kickin' covers here.

Even older than that is Dred Zeppelin, a reggae version of an Elvis Presely/Led Zeppelin fusion sound.

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Sure, I was just on my way to the fridge anyhow.

Ahem. I'm a bit jaded after that Matthew McConnahey/Christian Bale Dragons Vs. Apache Helicopters movie.

"It's about time!" many said.

No, actually, it wasn't.

Thanks to anonymous geek.

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Quoting an interview of Bush by Sean Hannity:

Hannity: Is this a struggle literally between good and evil?

Bush: I think it is.

Hannity: This is what it is? Do you think most people understand that? I mean, when you see the vacillating poll numbers, does it discourage you in that sense?

Bush: Well, first of all, you can't make decisions on polls, Sean. You've got to do what you think is right. The reason I say it's good versus evil is that evil people kill innocent life to achieve political objectives. And that's what Al Qaeda and people like Al Qaeda do.

General "Bomber" Greenwald comments:

Bush means all of that. That's really what he believes. And he isn't constrained by the things that constrain rational people because his mission, in his mind, transcends all of those mundane limitations. Is there anyone who still doubts that?

Far be it from me to question the Hero of Kabul, but can any lefty please edify as to what, precisely, Bush said that was so obviously wrong? So obviously, transparently, glaringly insane, in fact, that Gen. Greenwald does not even feel compelled to specify what it is he finds objectionable?

I thought the "reasonable left" agreed that Al Qaeda killed innocent human life to achieve its (rather grandiose) political goals, and that murdering innocents was, indeed, evil (and by implication, the preservation of those innocent lives would be "good").

And do please note we are talking about Al Qaeda here. Not Iraq. Al Qaeda-- you know, the "real terrorists" all of the lefties would gladly enlist up to go and kill if only Bush wouldn't thwart them by hiding the Army recruitment website.

I'm sorry, I have to ask. Now that the elections have been won--

Have you all stopped even pretending now?

I'd appreciate it if you did. If it's been annoying for you to lie for the past five and a half years, trust me, it's been more annoying for those of us on the right to pretend to believe you without laughing in your faces.

If the pretense is now to to be jettisoned, I say it's about time, and I appreciate your newfound, though late-coming, candor.

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Wiki tells me the Casbah is in Algiers, but it also tells me this song was written in response to Iran's banning of rock n' roll. Which, no, I never knew. Had no idea what it was about.

Viva la Rock, baby.

I probably should not have linked that last one.

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Moving apartheid:

ourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center resigned today, concluding they could “no longer in good conscience continue to serve” following publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”

“It seems that you have turned to a world of advocacy, including even malicious advocacy,” the board members wrote in a letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position."

Where was this "strident and uncompromising position" back in 1979, I wonder? Seems there's only one race on earth for whom Jimmy Carter's heart doesn't bleed.

Via Ragnar at Rusty's.

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There's just something so satisfying about tossing paperballs into a basket.

This one's strangely compelling too, despite being French. (Link deleted until I can find one that doesn't feature vaginas in the advertisements.)

Thanks to Jonah at NRO's the Corner for posting the Wastebasket game again.

Poux Game -- Now With 75% Less Vagina! 100% less, actually. It's like Tetris, sort of.

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I added this as an update to the "nuke" post, but it seems important enough for a new post.

Three strong explosions jolted southern Iran on Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, but gave no information about possible casualties.

"Three explosions were so strong that they shook windows of houses," the agency said, adding that the explosions happened in Khorramshahr in the border province of Khuzestan.

Khuzestan, the heartland of Iran's oil industry, has been simmering with unrest among the province's mostly Arab population for more than a year.

Slightly more than half of Iran's are 69 million people are Persians and the rest are ethnic Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Baluchis and Lors.

Three massive explosions in the "heartland of Iran's oil industry" which is "simmering with unrest"?

Please say it isn't so.

How will my heart go on?

Corrected: Whoops, wrote "Iraq" in the header. It's Iran.

I Wonder If This Has Anything To Do With Anything Update:

Iran to Execute Seven Arabs For "Anti-Government Activity" In Oil-Rich Khuzestan Province

Iran is planning to execute seven Arabs sentenced to death after a secret summary trial, this according to three United Nations human rights investigators.

The families of the seven men from Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province (south-west Iran), were told earlier this week that the executions would occur “in the next few days”. Seething with resentment over high levels of unemployment, Khuzestan is home of anti-government movement.

The UN officials said the seven were part of a larger group of Arabs arrested in June 2006 in the province on charges including intent to destabilise Iran and overthrow its government. Three were executed last month.

The suspects were also accused of training in Iraq by US, British and Israeli officials, said Philip Alston, the UN Human Rights Council's expert on summary executions, and fellow investigators Leandro Despouy and Manfred Nowak.

Well, they always claim that. But it's still time to say "Nice oil industry you got 'ere, Colonel. Be a shame if sometin' were to 'appen to it."

Now, am I saying I approve of terrorists blowing up Iranian oil infrastructure?

Of course not.

But, like Reuters, all I see here are some "insurgents" with a plucky, can-do attitude. And a dream.

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The treacherous whore:

Some fresh air blew into the Capitol yesterday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi banned smoking from the most venerable nicotine haven on the hill -- the Speaker's Lobby outside the entrance to the House floor.

Pelosi, of smoke-free California, is known to detest the tobacco habit. Ever since her ascension as top Democrat with authority over the lobby and most other space in the House, smokers have been bracing for the moment when they'd be ordered to extinguish their butts.

This isn't big and important like Bush's speech last night, but these stories always make me madder than just about anything else out there. It's not enough that you can't smoke in 99% of Washington D.C.; there was still one spot left, and it just killed Nancy to know that.

Smoking is still permitted in lawmakers' offices, in two designated smoking rooms in the House office buildings and in a small, concrete room in the Capitol's basement.

A small, concrete room that probably looks a lot like the office they gave to Milton in Office Space. And we all know what he did.

I think I'm going to start mailing Nancy Pelosi the contents of my ashtrays.

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Unlikely and unsourced. But it's being "reported," so, like AP and Reuters, I'm responded to report it but say "the nuclear detonation could not be independently verified."

Via Allah, who reports (though it could not be independently verified) that "elite snowtrooper and Bronze star winner" (with special cluster for Blogging Above And Beyond The Call of Duty) Glenn Greenwald is all atwitter that we've raided an Iranian terrorist base. He's primarily concerned about how this might complicate the dangerous sorties he's running into northwest Pakistan, of course.

Greg Tinti:

The dumbest reaction I've seen to this on the left is from Glenn Greenwald, whom without apparently understanding the irony of his question, asks, "Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill them if they do not surrender, and then detain six consulate officers?"

Heh. Glenn's apparently too busy shootin' up Al Qaeda evil doers to remember a similar incident back in 1979. Eh, it didn't get much press, so it's forgivable.

I don't know about you, but it seems that Greenwald's rather quick to side with Iran on this one.

Quick? I did not know reflex actions permitted of variations in speed.

PS, US officials are denying that Iranian safehouse was a consulate at all.

Eh. Either way works for me.

Three Explosions?: Surely they're not testing three bombs at once.

Three strong explosions jolted southern Iran on Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, but gave no information about possible casualties.

"Three explosions were so strong that they shook windows of houses," the agency said, adding that the explosions happened in Khorramshahr in the border province of Khuzestan.

Khuzestan, the heartland of Iran's oil industry, has been simmering with unrest among the province's mostly Arab population for more than a year.

Slightly more than half of Iran's are 69 million people are Persians and the rest are ethnic Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Baluchis and Lors.

Three blasts. I likes it.

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They never used the world "cakewalk," but certainly they did believe Iraq would be a cakewalk.

How do I know this?

Because most Democrats voted in favor of the war, when it was clear, even at that time, they actually did not want to go to war in Iraq at all.

Most Democrats voted against the Gulf War -- the first Iraq war. They were stunned and embarrassed to find they'd voted the wrong way. Voting against that war was considered someting bordering on disqualification for running for the Presidency.

Hence John Kerry's flip-flop. He'd been burned once by voting against a speedy and spectacularly successful (and thus popular) war once; damned if he'd do it a second time.

What on earth possessed John Kerry to change his vote-- against the Gulf War, in favor of the War in Iraq?

The success of the Gulf War, of course -- and, more importantly, the expected similar outcome of the War in Iraq.

Anyone on the left want to tell me I'm wrong? Would Glenn Greenwald like to postulate a reason other than cynical political calculation in changing his basic position on the use of force?

Oh, right-- John Kerry says he mistook an Authorization for the Use of Miltary Force for an Authorization for the Use of Prudent Diplomacy. I guess it's an easy enough mistake to make.

So please, liberals -- stuff the complaints that conservatives expected Iraq to be far, far less costly a war, and won far, far more quickly.

So did all your liberal dearhearts, like Senator Hillary! Clinton.

The proof is in the voting.

If they didn't expect a cakewalk -- if they didn't believe there were WMD's, if they thought the war would slog on for three-plus grueling years -- why did they vote for it? Who would have voted for it, believing that?

And don't tell me they expected Bush to run the war better. They have called him incompetent and dangerously messianic since he took office. Half of Democrats believe he's actually partially retarded.

So stick the "We had faith in Bush's competence" claim up your ass, sideways. Only half the people in this country had any faith in Bush's competence, and we all know it was not the Democrats.

And again I ask: What's worse -- voting for a war you believe in, or voting for a war you don't believe in just because you don't want to damage your political viability?

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