You all... do appreciate the irony of this, don't you?

Not that sucking cock is a bad thing, mind you. Certainly, given your preferred Two Minute Hate leader (actually, a thirty minute hate, given Greenwald's insufferlably long and pompous prose), and given the decidedly gay-skewing demographics of Salon, surely you can't think it's an insult to accuse someone of "sucking cock."

So what is it? Are you actually quibbling about my technique? Too fast? Too slow? Not "minding the grapes" enough to your satisfaction?

Honestly, it's all a bit much coming from you guys.

Half of you have a glans battering your uvula even while you're trolling here.

So, you know, calm down on the accidentally self-revelatory, cluelessly self-hating slurs.

PS, Gleen? This?

The super-tough-(and-anonymous)-Churchillian-warrior "Ace of Spades"

You're really not the one to go impugning people for posting under a pseudonym, buddy. At least I chose one and stuck with it.

How many have you had?

PS: I appreciate the defense my readers are putting up, but if you're doing it for me, don't bother. I'm not terribly embarrassed I questioned the authenticity of a PDF featuring a hummel figurine as the State Department logo. Frankly, I think those who refused to question a PDF with such an, errr, interesting feature ought to be embarrassed.

If you're knocking the trolls just because it pleases you to knock trolls, or to defend your own suspicions of this strangely-logo'd memo, do carry on.

But don't do it for me. Honestly, I don't care.

Dave P at Dean Esmay's has some last thoughts on Flappygate, here.

And really, if the left is saying a document featuring this as a "State Department logo"...

...should be accepted uncritically, no wonder so many of them subscribe to Truther conspiracy theories.

It would be almost as absurd as a document bearing this as an official government logo:

Read all about Gleen's alter egos here.

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Only 97 veterans' graves desecrated in protest of the American War Machine.

And that, my friends, sounds like progress to me.

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Allah previously suggested that the embargo on reporting Cindy "Absolute Moral Authority" Sheehan's repudiation of the Democratic Party may have simply been due to the Memorial Day weekend.

Well, the weekend is over, alas. And if they can find time to report her quitting the Peace Movement, why the silence on her quitting the Democratic Party?

I submit it's because they don't want indpendents to know this lunatic ever was a member of the Democratic Party, and they don't want the lunatics in the Democratic Party to know she's now an independent.

Again, so much effort of "reporters" seems to be expended on creative and innovative ways to not report relevant news.

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A 10,000 word article in the NYT Sunday Magazine mentioned the various conspiracy theories percolating on the John Bircher right.

NYT in 1995:

If today's conspiracy theories provoke a shiver in the night, some bedtime reading may help. A vast array of Cassandras echo through American history -- usually on the fringes of politics but occasionally accepted by the mainstream. Through the centuries the villains of the pieces have shifted -- from Masons to Catholics to Jews, for example -- but the alleged plots also have a lot in common: a foreign (or otherwise alien) connection, a tie to big money, a secret organization more powerful than any state.

Three decades ago, the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote the classic essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," describing a tendency to see vast conspiracies as the key to history...

The post-World War II years, a time as confusing as now, saw a real adversary, Soviet Communism, became blurred in some minds with a wider conspiracy; in this view, the United Nations and foreign aid and integration were all part of a Communist plot. (The high-schoolish grammar is that of the Times writer - I haven't altered it. PG) Robert Welch, leader of the John Birch Society, published "The Politician" in 1963, in which he noted President Eisenhower's support for these and concluded that Eisenhower must be a Communist himself.

Here's what the NYT has to say about today's conspiracy theories regarding the President acting with a cabal of international criminals: .

Gee, I wonder what could possibly account for the differing levels of interest in quite-similar cases.

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Yeah, good luck with that.

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, said Tuesday she's done being the public face of the movement.

"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

"I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.

In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.

"It's up to you now."

Not exactly out-on-a-limb prediction: this will be the shortest withdrawal from public life since H. Ross Perot's.

Via Michael of Innocent Bystanders, where Pupster deconstructs the shock study showing that men have no idea what they're doing in grocery stores.

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No one saw this coming.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an "ownership society" really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.

"There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed," she said. "Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."

In related news, I'm virtually camped out by my mailbox waiting for my share of the Clintons' considerable wealth.

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Macabre.

A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.

Authorities didn't immediately release the identities of the victims in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth.

The woman's sister, who lived nearby, had stopped at the home after the woman failed to show up for work, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. He said the sister rescued the infant when she realized the baby girl was still alive.

The other children, ages 5, 3 and 2, had all had been hanged with strips of clothing and sashes, Fowler said.

"It's terrible, terrible," he said.

The infant was taken to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth and was in good condition, Fowler said.

...

Fowler said the hangings Tuesday also appeared to be murder-suicide, but the investigation was still under way.

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Macabre.

A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.

Authorities didn't immediately release the identities of the victims in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth.

The woman's sister, who lived nearby, had stopped at the home after the woman failed to show up for work, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. He said the sister rescued the infant when she realized the baby girl was still alive.

The other children, ages 5, 3 and 2, had all had been hanged with strips of clothing and sashes, Fowler said.

"It's terrible, terrible," he said.

The infant was taken to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth and was in good condition, Fowler said.

...

Fowler said the hangings Tuesday also appeared to be murder-suicide, but the investigation was still under way.

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Funny. In addition to the scatological and obscene names, there is the simply depressingly named Disappointment, Kentucky. That's not even a cool downer name like Hell, Michigan (and not nearly as fun as, say, Twatt, Scotland, or Muff, Ireland, or... well, there seem to be a lot of perverts on the English Isles).

I also ran across this list of the ten worst names for people. Some of these may seem pretty unlikely, but, via my mad Google skillz, I was able to find references to five of them on the Internets. Then I stopped searching, figuring that five was enough to validate the list.

Thanks to Andrews Dad, who's decided to live a more aggressive, more full life so that when he dies he can more than "I watched CSI."

Pardon me, but the hell with you, Sir. How dare you.

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Great analysis of internet-polling results from William Buetler.

These internet polls are a joke in the sense they don't tell us, as real polls do, about the opinions of the broader (non-internet-poll-spamming) public.

But these polls do tell us something about the spambots voting in the polls.

And Buetler demonstrates conclusively -- Ron Paul's spambots do not consider any other Republican candidates even remotely acceptable. This is an exclusive feature to Paul's supporters -- every other candidate's supporters also deems two, three, four, or even five other candidates "acceptable."

But not Ron Paul's.

Because they're not, by and large, Republicans at all, or even conservatives.

They're lefties and LaRouchies and the remnants of the old John Bircher right, angry their party has been taken away from "real Republican values" like the gold standard and insane conspiracy theories.

Via Hot Air.

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