Democrats plan -- shock! -- "symblolic votes" against surge, war.

Profiles in courage time.

I'm sure all those soldiers who will be killed in a continuing lie will be thankful for having their lives symbolically saved.

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At the CES. Sort of beats all hell out of Instapundit's coverage, doesn't it?

I've seen a lot of people tasered at this point. It's, you know, old. I think Eric Estrada just got juiced, and of course there was that whiny hysterical he-bitch at the UCLA library.

Still, hearing Amanda Congdon say she felt "all tingly" and, even better, "couldn't move" is a new twist.

The effect? It looks like she's having a full-body orgasm. She also talks up the Iphone at the end and says the words "four-ninety-nine a pop" which is, you know, just icing on the cake.

Number of ejaculations: I'll let you know after 5pm knocking-off time. I'm planning my evening around it.

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It's what the man said.

Granted, he didn't say it like that.

Yesterday Monty noted that dKos posters easily evaded the supposed-ban on anti-Jew slurs by simply talking about "New York money men" (wink-wink -- who lives in New York, and who's got the money and influence to start illegal wars of choice and occupation (wars of "choicupation") in the Middle East)?

You know who.

Now it seems that prominent Democratic politicos are learning from their lunatic masters.

And you know what? He doesn't just hint at it. He makes the Jew = warmongering dual-loyalty fifth-column gefilte-gobblers equivalency perfectly overt.

How can you talk about bombing a country when you won’t even talk to them?” said Clark. “It’s outrageous. We’re the United States of America; we don’t do that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the military option is off the table — but diplomacy is not what Jim Baker says it is. It’s not, What will it take for you boys to support us on Iraq? It’s sitting down for a couple of days and talking about our families and our hopes, and building relationships.”

When we asked him what made him so sure the Bush administration was headed in this direction, he replied: “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.”

Jews

They're using the all-black military as muscle, and you. Are left. Defenseless.

The Reference: From The Blues Brothers, of course.

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It should be noted that women with vaginas also "baffle" most scientists. But anyway:

James McGaugh is one of the world's leading experts on how the human memory system works. But these days, he admits he's stumped.

McGaugh's journey through an intellectual purgatory began six years ago when a woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago.

This remarkable gift for recalling trivial events from decades ago is estimated to be shared by, at most, 98.2% of women. If the trivial event in question casts you in a bad light, that number rises to 99.9+%. *

(* So, so hacky. Thank you, thank you. You know what else bugs me? Peanuts on airplanes and black people who talk in movie theaters. Be sure to tip your waitress. And now let's give it up for our next comic, the guy who played Balky in Perfect Strangers.)

Give her any date, she said, and she could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date.

Like any good scientist, McGaugh was initially skeptical. But not anymore.

"This is real," he says.
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McGaugh has spent decades studying how such things as stress hormones and emotions affect memory, and at first he thought AJ's memories were of such emotional power that she couldn't forget them.

But that hypothesis fell short of the mark when it became obvious that "the woman who can't forget" remembers trivial details as clearly as major events. Asked what happened on Aug 16, 1977, she knew that Elvis Presley had died, but she also knew that a California tax initiative passed on June 6 of the following year, and a plane crashed in Chicago on May 25 of the next year, and so forth. Some may have had a personal meaning for her, but some did not.

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So unique, in fact, that the Irvine team has given her condition a new name. They call it hyperthymestic syndrome, based on the Greek word thymesis for "remembering" and hyper, meaning "more than normal."

Some day, the researchers say, they hope to know what's different about AJ's brain, but they are still a ways off.

"In order to explain a phenomenon you have to first understand the phenomenon," McGaugh says. "We're at the beginning."

What a waste of money and research man-hours. When I was a lad, before NanSSy PeloSSi imposed a Fascism With A Grin of Botoxed Rictus on AmeriKKKA, we would have just scientifically determined her to be a witch and burned her at the stake. Would have taken twenty minutes and eight buck two bit.

But now? Lots of taxpayer money going right into the pockets of a Whorebride of Satan.

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Donald Trump is said to be interested in acquiring the notorious property, though he isn't sure that "Castle Dracula" is strong enough brand name to attract rentors.

So he's going to call it "Castle Trump." And throw in a yuuuuge golf course and lots of gorgeous, tasteful bronzes of Donald Trump naked-wrestling with jaguars.

(I have no independent confirmation that Trump has any interest whatsoever in the property.)

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I've been slow consumed by jealousy and feelings of inadequacy in acknowleging Bill From INDC's reporting from Iraq.

Allah, who's more comfortable with his inadequacy -- hell, it's practically a point of pride with him -- is a lot better on this, and suggests you read Bill's latest postings in full and posthaste.

Yusef: “Through my [experience as an enemy], the way I look at Americans, I look at them and feel like they are occupiers, occupying my country when the invasion happened. But when other parties showed up - especially the radicals and the Iranian militias, both who are not Iraqis - now I prefer the Americans. I’ve met [various Americans working for Fallujah]. It is my feeling that [they are] working hard, and (before I knew) you (Americans) I had a different image. Now that I know the Americans, I have a different impression. Now I deal honestly with them and feel they are really working for the benefit of my side.”

“I think the Americans are more for Iraq than the Iraqis themselves.”

Read the whole thing, as they say.

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Sounds like a fun little premise. I think I had a similar thread during the Israel-Hezbollah war, but it didn't take off.

Ace, I have an idea. I think, at least once a day, you should post an outlandish story and end it with "There was no independent confirmation."

Here's a freebie. "According to multiple witnesses, DNC Chairman Howard Dead bludgeoned four hobos to death last night with a rusty tire iron. There was no independent confirmation."

Thanks to Shivv for the idea.

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More "Whores For Low Rent."

Story at Gawker.

The idiots doing this bill themselves as a "Creative Co-Op."

Yes, very creative. A public stunt involving sex. That hasn't been done yet, at least not since brunch.

Nine months pregnant and 45 years old, Tasha Diamant is standing buck-naked to the prairie.

To be completely accurate, Diamant is actually in the middle of a near-empty ballet studio, in the middle of this conservative southern Alberta city, in the middle of winter. But the buck-naked part is bang on. For the most part, she is silent and motionless. Once in a while she cradles her very-pregnant belly. Or takes a sip of water. That's about it.

The rest of her Human Body Project is left to the emotions of the audience and her darting eyes, which at times appear to be signalling something between panic and pain.

"It's a pretty weird thing to do," the artist, teacher and mother confesses during a fully clothed interview.

"It's very out of my comfort zone to stand up in front of people naked."

More than 15 years have passed since actress Demi Moore's ground-breaking naked photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine while she was seven months pregnant.

Diamant's project, however, is more about the vulnerability of the human race.

She wasn't even pregnant during her first show last March, when more than 70 people turned up.

Participants are discouraged from chatting but are free to express themselves writing, drawing, painting or even using one of the open mikes.

"I cry for your courage, bravery and incredible strength," one woman wrote on a poster.

"I am a woman - 31 years old - who has spent every day hiding behind labels, clothes, expectations and truly ridiculous beliefs. Spending my days trying to cover who I am. But today I see you."

Diamant says it's about shaking up perceptions and opening minds. She wants her own naked body to represent humankind and the earth itself - with all its flaws, vulnerability and fragility.

"Everything from body image to sexuality to religion gets in the way of just seeing the fragile naked body," she says.

Also getting in the way: Clothing.

"I think for many people who have gotten something from the project, my use of my naked body has helped them connect with their own humanity - that alone is a small way of moving humanity forward."

Her second show in Lethbridge - just weeks away from her due date - is a different game. Only 19 people turn up, including friends and helpers.

Moving humanity forward, three people at a time.

Godspeed, Godiva.

I'll be impressed when a leftist "artist" attempts moving humanity forward without showing her cha-cha. Now that, truly, would be an innovation.

Annoying. She shows her she-junk in front of a room full of containing strangers and it's "art" and an "act of bravery." And yet when I rub my man-pooter on the cafetorium windows of the St. Sebastian School For Boys, it's "indecent exposure" and "just plain weird."

Maybe if I dressed it up with a website everything would be copacetic.

Almost Hitting For The Cycle: The ass-painter. He seems to appreciate the ridiculousness of this. No talk of "moving humanity forward" here. He just likes sticking his dumper into pigments.

Thanks to JackStraw for that.

Moving Humanity Forward? Or Just Plain Exibitionism? Hobgoblin finds her website, which has a (NSFW) slide-show of her "art."

Here's the thing. 90% of the pictures are of audience members. All three of them, photographed twenty times each.

So is this really about moving humanity forward, or convincing herself that people really crave seeing her sex-tarantula?

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Old position: Global warming skeptic. New position: Global warming enthusiast.

The OPEC cartel of leading oil producing nations is considering emergency measures to prop up prices after the cost of a barrel of crude fell to its lowest in 18 months.

Oil ministers are today expected to continue yesterday's frenzied round of telephone calls after the price fell below $54 a barrel, triggered by mild weather, particularly in the US.

The oil markets initially shrugged off an escalation of an oil pipeline dispute between Russia and Belarus, and some OPEC members fear that the price will fall further unless the organisation agrees to cut production.

But with Russia and Belarus failing to reach agreement, early losses were pared with Brent recovering to close 42 cents lower at $55.18. A long-term fall in crude prices could have widespread consequences, from damaging Gulf economies to undermining the business models of oil exploration companies.

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With no clear signal that OPEC will agree a strategy soon, there was an expectation yesterday that some speculators would begin testing the $50 a barrel threshold.

The buffoonish O'Reilly, I take it, will suddenly embrace the villainous speculators as heroes.

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Awww. Adorable.

Thanks to sidhe.

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