Wookies Gone Wild:

A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said Saturday.

“Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do,” “Chewie” from the “Star Wars” movies said before slamming his head into the guide’s forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.

The 6-foot, 5-inch-tall 44-year-old man was charged Friday with misdemeanor battery and later released on $20,000 bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

And this is old, but so funny it needs to be watched again:

JackStraw sent the Wookie story, and the Vader Sessions comes via Hot Johnny And All of His Pants, thanks to the BumperStickerist.

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The claim seemed rather stupid from the start. But the "study" purports to have found not a single First-person account Vietnam vets being spat upon.

Just an urban legend, the amateur webzine Slate claims, seeking to extirpate the bad behavior of its leftist fellow-travellers from the record.

Now Dan Riehl is known for being pretty damn good with Google searches. But
if he can find numerous instances of reporting of Vietnam vets being spat upon, why couldn't this researcher? Or why couldn't the amateur webzine Slate have had a couple of interns scouring the Internet as Dan did to determine if this claim was true before announcing, in a headline, that "the Myth of Spitting Upon Veterans refuses to die"?

It's relatively easy to not find evidence contrary to your thesis. After all, you don't want to find it. It will contradict your whole claim. Perhaps this researcher, and Slate, should have kept that in mind.

If Slate's going to represent itself as a quasi-reliable source, shouldn't they sort of do the slightest amount of homework -- just an hour or so of advanced Google searches -- before reporting their "facts"?

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Here:

Hit the link for more.

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In her latest HamNation, MKH brings a military power point chart to life with sophisticated animation techniques not seen since the debut of South Park.

In all seriousness, it is a clever tribute to Army Captain Travis Patriquin. Captain Patriquin was killed in service to his country in December, 2006 and was the "man behind the powerpoint strategy" so to speak.

So if you would like to learn more about the reason our military places such a great emphasis on training Iraqi police officers, click on her site and watch her video.

And let her know Jack M. sent ya. I'd be much obliged.

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Or so say Jim Geraghty's sources. From a previous profile of Clark:

Interviews with a wide variety of current and retired military officials reveal that Clark was disliked by only three groups: Those whom ranked above him in the chain of command whom he ignored, his peers at the same rank whom he lied to, and those serving beneath him whom he micromanaged. Other than that, everyone liked him.

If Geraghty gets to pull out his old profiles of Wesley Clarke, then I get to dust off my old "TimeRanger" jokes.

Basically, the key to Wesley Clark is this: On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, he decides to boast of his strong belief in time-travel. It's not as if there are pressing, real-world issues to talk about. Just a global war on terror, an economy producing an anemic rate of job-growth, and perhaps the most ideologically-important election in, oh, fifty years or so. But General Wesley Clark has his eyes on the really big issues -- you know, like the various plot inconsistencies in Quantum Leap.

Geeky as I am, even I look down on this guy, [who's] on the campaign trail debating the feasibility of the solar-slingshot time-displacement maneuver in Star Trek.

I can't wait to see this guy's detailed four-point plan for improving job-growth:

1) Federally-funded job retraining programs

2) "Fair trade" rules imposing penalties on countries with substandard worker and environmental protections

3) Increasing the tax credits for the working poor

4) Flux capacitors

No, seriously, he did talk up time travel as an important area of research that was quite attainable.

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Waaambulance.

Here's one whine:

Single proprietor bloggers may not get the traffic of the gigantic community blogs, but we do a lion share of the work out here as well. Â… Taking me out of the equation for a moment, shouldnÂ’t Clinton at least help out a few of the small female only blogs, reaching out to females everywhere? YouÂ’d think that would be important to her.

It is important to her, although she's not sure if it's the smartest strategy.

Blog PI writes:

And to editorialize for a moment, there is something unseemly about complaining that an advertiser did not buy ads on one’s site. Daou and the Clinton team are under no obligation to buy ads on anybody’s site. Yes, Marsh is a member of the netroots in good standing — she has worked for the SEIU and MyDD to cover a labor dispute in Las Vegas — but the same is true of dozens of other bloggers whom Clinton missed on the first round. As Daou said to me, it’s impossible to buy on every site. And at least as of this morning, Marsh has made no acknowledgment of her inclusion in the next phase of the Clinton ad buy.

If it’s not exactly extortion, it does betray the kind of myopic egocentrism that establishment Democrats use — sometimes as an excuse, sometimes not — to keep the netroots at bay.

Not sure what he means by that last sentence-- that the Democrat establishment is using the possibility of blandishments/threat of denial of ad revenues to keep the lefty netroots from seething too hard against candidates?

Hillary! bought ads on a bunch of conservative sites, too, including Powerline, Captain Ed, Hugh Hewitt, Wizbang, etc.

Not here.

I'm very upset that Hillary! doesn't seem to care about a multiple-proprietor mostly-male blog doing the lion's share of the work in raising community consciousness that she is a total fucking dick.

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Rich Lowry is perplexed that John McCain, frontrunner for the GOP nomination, is currently running front of everyone... except Rudy Guiliani, who tops him 34%-22% in the latest FoxNews/OpinionBlahBlah poll.

JPod explains these strange results to him:

Rich, McCain is in second place because he's not the frontrunner.

I was told there would be no math on this internets.

The article is here. Now, I'm just a "very smart military blogger" so all this math and political stuff doesn't really make sense to me, but isn't it hard to keep saying "Rudy can't win the Republican nomination" when polls of Republicans keep putting him in first place or a close second?

Among self-identified Republicans, Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain continue to lead the pack: 34 percent support Giuliani and 22 percent McCain. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is unannounced but appears to be considering a run, captures the third slot with 15 percent.

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• Giuliani puts the largest number of voters at ease: two-thirds of voters (65 percent) say they would be at least somewhat "comfortable" with Giuliani as president, 58 percent McCain, 56 percent Edwards, 53 percent Clinton, 48 percent Obama and 21 percent Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. Still, only 8 percent express complete comfort in a Giuliani presidency.

• Among Republicans, 83 would be comfortable with Giuliani in the White House, 75 percent McCain and 30 percent Romney. Among Democrats, 84 percent would be comfortable with Clinton as president, 70 percent Edwards and 60 percent Obama.

• Overall, when looking at just those saying they would be "extremely" comfortable, it is Clinton who tops the list with 12 percent compared to 8 percent for Giuliani, 6 percent McCain, 6 percent Obama, 4 percent Edwards and 1 percent Romney. While Clinton has the highest number saying they are "extremely" comfortable with her in the White House, she also has the most saying they are "not at all" comfortable (33 percent).

34% in a divided field with four serious candidates is not peanuts.

Don't actual Republicans sort of know what they find acceptable and unacceptabe in a candidate? Don't their opinions matter?

Or perhaps these mercenaries -- oops, I mean Republican voters -- should just keep their mouths shut and accept that American hates them.

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to write for Greg Gutfield on his upcoming show on Fox.

How 'bout that? And I've only been posting on this moronblog for a week or so.

Guess I oughta go read some of his Huffpo columns to get a sense of his style.

Be back later.

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He, I'd watch it.

Heck, I'd even write for it, were I called upon to do so.

Call me. Dickhead.

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Are they capable of saying a damn thing without working in not-terribly-well-coded jihaidist messages?

Perhaps he was just reading from the Democratic talking points, though. I'm told he rejected a passage railing against "New York Money Men" suggested by Wesley Clarke as being "too, I don't know, on the nose, I guess."

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