Since the President and adminstration we've supported so stalwartly is calling us Nazis in their snit, I figured I might as well get with the program myself.

The loss of revnues is not all that great in the scheme of things. A drop in the bucket, really -- $160,000 odd last year versus $100,000 this year. Money wise, that's nothing. Especially when offset by the big checks from businesses and Hispanic lobbies to get this Frankamnestein stitched together and wobbling on its own feet.

The trouble is, people vote their wallets, and their wallets presage their votes. If they're not giving money, they're not going to be giving votes, either.

The RNC has fired its in-house dial-a-donor staff and hired outsiders to do the job.

They blame the "antiquated" nature of the phone system for the drop off in donations.

Maybe it's due to the antiquated nature of this warmed-over 1986 amnesty.

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You know, Jeri Kehn, Fred Thompson's wife, Mrs. Fred Thompson, Mrs. Jeri Kehn Thompson, Mrs. Fred Jeri Kehn Thompson, Mrs. Jeri "Minnesota Tits" Thompson, the Future First Lady and The First Twins, "Stacey" and "Becca."

Just tossing all those in this post to grab searches.

And also, to grab searches from my three readers in Yemen, "Wife of Infidel Crusader Pig Dog With Knockers Like Ripe Casaba Melonns."

This is the part where i wanted to link the picture I'd uploaded of her, but I can't, because neither Google nor Yahoo cannot find a single frickin' post of mine anymore.

What the hell? Have they officially begun purging blogs from the search engines?

Here's Something:

Thanks to BumperStickerist.

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You know that poor guy under quarrantine for the first time in a bazillion years due to his particularly infectious and deadly strain of TB?

His father in law is one of the top TB researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prvention in Atlanta.

He either:

1) hit the medical lottery to have a father in law who just so happens to specialize in the disease he contracted.

or

2) made the mistake of discussing his and his wife's hobby of "light B&D and assplay" in front of her parents.

I'm thinking closer to 2.

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From Dave In Texas and Geoff.

What President* Bush (yep, the liberal asterisk; why not go whole hog?) fails to comprehend is that he has been so incompetent, embarrassingly dimwitted, and fiscally reckless for six years that the few supporters he had had to spend an awful lot of time, energy, and intellectual (and sometimes emotional) effort to support him.

Our thanks?

President Bush attacked opponents of an immigration deal Tuesday, suggesting they “don’t want to do what’s right for America.”

Not to completely crib from the liberal talking points, but, Mr. President, are your estimates of "merely" 12 million amnestied aliens and improved border security brought to us from the same team that announced a "slam-dunk" on WMDs?

Teddy Kennedy, according to Mike Chertoff: "Awesome"

We who supported Bush for six grueling years: "don't want what's best for America"

Frankly, I think what would be best for America is for Bush to take that long-vacation-seguing-into-an-early-retirement he's obviously had his eye on since age 23.

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His arrogance is astouding. Not only does he brazenly threaten to stop all local spending in any district of any congressman who challenges him, he refuses to even comment on the scandal.

He's John Murtha -- he was a Marine. He doesn't have to explain himself to the public.

The CNN story concludes, "The Democrats promised reform, and it's not happening."

That seems to understate it. It seems to be far worse.

Meanwhile... Hillary! Clinton and her fellow ecoflagellant liberal Senators continue pouring lethal amounts of poisonous CO2 into the atmosphere by using corporate "sponsored" private jets for any trip longer than stopping by 7-Eleven for blunts and Big Gulps.

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It seems our friends up north have known about Ms. Marsden for some time. She was even encouraged to run for office as a Conservative.

The only thing that got in the way? Um...(opens pdf)

Peter Worthington, founder of the Sun chain of newspapers and senior columnist with the Toronto Sun, says he's puzzled by the hiring. "She's good-looking, she's articulate, but she's nine miles of bad road," he says. "You might want to live dangerously, and they seem to have decided they want to do that." He admits the Sun has lived to regret its share of strange hires and is willing to give his rivals the benefit of the doubt that maybe they've made a mistake. But, he warns, "the editor better not be in a room alone with her--she has a lethal reputation."

That reputation began in 1996, when Marsden publicly accused Liam Donnelly, a swim coach at Simon Fraser University, where she was enrolled, of sexual harassment. After an investigation--which Donnelly boycotted--the coach was fired and publicly censured by SFU. The story made national news, but later, Donnelly was able to prove that, in fact, things were the other way around: Marsden had been stalking him. In July 1997, he was reinstated. Just days later Marsden contacted the CBC and went on The National to accuse Donnelly of rape. The charge was false, but the episode became such a scandal for SFU that the university's president resigned, citing stress. Marsden was unfazed and unapologetic. Of the fallout, she told a reporter: "Fifty per cent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 per cent want to kill me." (Marsden has long cultivated a highly sexualized image. Her website, until very recently, contained near-pornographic images of the columnist in skimpy lingerie, as well as photos of celebrity Julia Roberts with Marsden's face digitally superimposed over the star's.) A few years later, she was warned by RCMP to stop harassing SFU criminology professor and author Neil Boyd.

In 2002, Marsden was arrested and charged with criminal harassment for repeatedly phoning and e-mailing a former lover, Michael Morgan, then a 52-year-old Vancouver radio personality. Search warrant documents obtained by the Vancouver Province alleged that Marsden threatened to publicly humiliate Morgan with nude photos she had taken of him and documents she had stolen from his office. She had also harassed his former girlfriend and her daughter. Just last year, Marsden pled guilty. A B.C. judge ordered her to keep out of trouble and sentenced to her to 12 months probation, which she is still serving.

Now, I'm not saying there is, but come on...

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Not really, but you could understand.

Thanks to dri.

Wow: Mild content warning for male strippers, serious content warning for the singing.

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Above the Fold Update: The NYPost, which would have some decent sources in FoxNews, I'm thinking:

SECURITY officers hastily escorted "Red Eye" contributor Rachel Marsden out of Fox News Channel's Midtown headquarters yesterday for bizarre and erratic behavior. "She's out of her [bleeping] mind. She was doing crazy stuff," a spy told us. The brown-haired hottie is notorious in Canada, where authorities say she falsely accused a university swim coach of sexual harassment and harassed a Vancouver radio personality.

...

And not as in "escorted by a dashing gentleman caller," either.

It's Gawker. Is it true? No idea. No one tells me anything.

I'll see if I can email her to find out. (As if she'll tell me.)

Or I can check later to see if Andrew Levy's popped up on my Googlechat. (As if he'd tell me.)

So, basically, I'm saying all I have is Gawker for this claim, and that's all I ever will have.

Clicking on that Salon hatchet-job linked at Gawker will reveal some... surprising stuff.

Which I'm not endorsing either.

Confirmed... More or less. The escorting seems to have been due to a firing.

May 30/07: A note to inquiring Red Eye viewers: I will no longer be appearing on the show, as I have been told that it is heading in a "different direction" from its inception, and I am the "first casualty". As a political and news commentator, being a panelist on what had become a totally off-the-wall-and-into-orbit show was an interesting experience. It was also the first time that I was ever considered the "sane one" on any program, so I am grateful for that unique opportunity and wish the boys the very best of luck.

Well, now that she's fired and therefore cannot hurt what I'd like to think of as "my career," I'll quibble with her "sane one" self-description. The rest of the guys were riffing, and she always injected this strange discordant note into everything. She was a bad fit. You'd have the other guys goofing around and suddenly she'd break in, pretty much in a non-sequitor, to drop this statistic she'd dug up on the internet as part of her show research. Whether the stat fit or not, whether it derailed the conversation or not, that stat was going to be mentioned come hell or high water.

Her factoids seemed to be like ICBMs -- no recall or abort codes. She was like WOPR in nuke-me pumps.

WOPR was the computer in War Games, by the way, aka "Joshua." I could have said "the computer in War Games" and not left anyone out of the reference, but I don't placate when it comes to eighties movies lore.

Thanks to PetiteDov for the original tip and the well-oiled machine that is Slublog for the confirmation.

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Not just shot, either. Shot dead.

Tone death.

h/t Sinistar.

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NRO's editors, called "foaming at the mouth" by WSJ in the above clip, offer them a debate to air the actual facts -- which of course WSJ will cowardly refuse to do.

The Washington Examiner wonders why the Republican establishment is so quick to disrespect and demean their base.

My two theories:

1) This is how they view us all the time; it's only in this particular context are they excitable enough to express their genuine opinions.

2) This is how they deal with any political opponents.

And on that latter point, I'm starting to wonder if the Bush Derangement Syndrome we see in so many liberals might have a vector of dismissiveness traceable right back to the White House.

Via the Corner, Laura Ingraham unloads on President Bush.

"The good news is that President Bush has finally taken the gloves off... the bad news is he's chosen to take them off to beat the hell out of us." (A paraphrase.)

Oh man. She is brutal.

She notes he goes out of his way to not question the patriotism of Democrats voting to de-fund our troops, but extends no such courtesies to his own voters.

Hey, President Bush? Fuck off. You are going down in history in a neck-and-neck battle with Jimmy Carter as worst president of the twentieth century.

And you know what? You are, pretty much, a fucking moron.

All that time we've razzed the left about claiming that? Oh, you're not diagnosably retarded or anything, but you're a fucking dim bulb, and you've got some nerve of accusing opponents of the amnesty bill (which you surely haven't even read, genius) of not being smart enough to support it.

And... Here's Bush claiming that with amnesty, we won't even need a fence! Which isn't very reassuring, because the only way that statement would be true would be if we had absolutely open borders and no concept of a American citizenship at all -- were that the law, then we wouldn't need a fence, as we'd have no laws whatsover regarding the border and immigration.

Is that the direction Mr. Smart Stuff is pushing us in?

Michael Chertoff continues arguing that border security will be increased now that his entire department will be giving up any border security duties at all.

And here's Bryan Preston, predicting that Bush's legacy will be the destruction of the GOP.

Message To The Left: I'm not saying you should impeach him, I'm just sayin', you know, go with your hearts.

Not The Twentieth Century: Damn, I'm still writing "the twentieth century" on all of my checks; takes me at least a couple of decades to get used to writing the new one.

Mark points out that Bush can't be tied with Carter as worst president of the twentieth century, as all of his presidency has taken place in the twenty-first.

So, on a technicality, Bush misses out on that distinction.

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