A PDF, in which it takes him 57 pages just to name all of the people he's suing.

Who include Monica Lewinsky, the Pope, John Deere, George Bush, Hugo Chavez, the Uniform Commercial Code (?!!), Jimmy Hoffa, Hitler's Nazis (he specifies he's going after the real old-school Nazis), Google, Jay Z, the Queen of England, Steven Spielberg, "Nuclear Power Plant," Tony Danza, The Magna Carta (?!!), and "Tsunami Victims" (I think he just added them in because it's always good to bring an unsympathetic party into a suit).

And then it begins to get a little nutty.

This guy takes the Sol Rosenberg principle -- "Sue everybody!" -- to an unintended extreme.

Thanks to Dave From Garfield Ridge, who gives this his official, coveted "It's Not Quite Old Yet" seal of approval.

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A nation waits with bated breath to learn if we've "given him exactly what he wanted" by convicting him of crimes he's plainly guilty of.

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It all has to do with Lindsey Graham toting a pistol in Iraq, which of course he's supposed to do. That's not where the mirth lies, though.

Here's teh big funny/substantive analysis Wonkette gets paid money for:

Graham is actually an officer in the Air Force Reserve, so, you know, he's not -- in Iraq, at the moment, at least -- a civilian. Unlike the sons of some presidential candidates I could name.

Hey, babe? Chelsea Clinton is of military age as well, and her mother voted for the War in Iraq, and of course the War in Afghanistan, which all of you liberals claim to be so super-duper fans of. In fact, you never tire of telling us how you'd like to fight that war even super-duper harder (so long as it doesn't involve air-strikes on villagers, of course).

Why hasn't she signed up? I'm sure they could use a good woman in Kabul.

And, actually, Wonkette-- what debilitating physical condition keeps your very own husband from doing his part in Afghanistan? I'm sure he's a He Man and True Blue Patriot and all that; I'm sure he's far more manly, and far more supportive of fighting the "Real War" than I. (Liberals always tell me so.)

So how about it? How about pressuring your husband -- a fairly young and as far as I can tell able-bodied man perfectly capable of military service -- into enlisting?

No?

Why is that? Why is it that liberals see no contradiction in forever claiming they're rabid champions of fighting the "real war" in Afganistan and finally defeating Al Qaeda but only conservatives have any obligation to actually fight in the war?

Looks like a hale young man to me. The nearsightedness might prevent him from being a pilot, but I'm pretty sure it's not pilots we need most right now, and neither the Army nor Marines will disqualify him for service so long as his vision is correctable up to minimum level.

If we're just going by the gross numbers, I'm pretty sure you'll find it is in fact conservatives, by lopsided majorities, actually fighting this war. The war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the smaller wars in Yemen and other hot-spots.

Seems to me like liberals have some enlisting to do if they wish to close the Warfighter Gap.

Perhaps Mr. Wonkette can be persuaded to carry a gun for America. As well as his liberal correligionists.

Or is he already busy "serving the national interest" editing the Congressional Quarterly?

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I say "hilarious" because the media person publicizing this claims it to be so. I don't blame her. She's being paid to say so. And you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's arse.

Standard Colbert apologism, entirely unfunny and entirely predictable, as lame and as mind-numbingly didactic as anything you'll find on the much-derided Half-Hour Comedy Hour. And yet the latter is ripped as hack, while Colbert -- doing the same schtick with the same level of comedy value -- is praised as "genius."

Whatever.

Since everyone's going to link it anyway, I'll do so. Colbert makes teh big funny about how Kos cannot possibly control what is written on his site, including, I guess, what he himself writes, such as writing of the four murdered civilian contractors: "Screw them. They're mercenaries. I feel nothing."

What a shock that Colbert forgets to mention that.

But as the inconveniently anti-American and pro-terrorist Kos is now big shakes in the Democratic Party, the media must do its part to rehabilitate his image so that the public doesn't get the wrong ideas. Ideas like major Democratic candidates for President, as well as the Majority Leader in the Senate, are now toadying up to an obscene toad who writes approvingly of the murder of Americans at the hands of terrorists.

Watch and learn. Colbert is as funny as his he is honest.

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The All-Knowing Mustache of Geraldo Rivera has declared this is not an "illegal immigrant" story, but a "scumbag," story, and as regards "scumbag" stories, I guess he'd be the one to know.

Although I'm not quite clear on why it can't be both sorts of stories.

[Newark's] director of police, Garry McCarthy, says the immigration status of the suspects is "irrelevant." He also is dismissing reports that the execution-style murders were related to the violent Central American gang, MS-13.

"Irrelevant."

I wonder what the families of the dead might think about that. Perhaps they have a different opinion on the relevance of this detail.

And being victims -- Absolute Moral Authority, you know.

Let us start referring to the "ever-increasing casualties of the sanctuary city policy" and note each new "grim milestone" as it occurs.

Or is that language only media-approved for use in the War on Terror?

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He's been gone for 30 years, and he's still raking in the cash... from the grave.

Elvis Presley is big business.. even more so this year on the 30th anniversary of his death. Last year Graceland brought in $27 million, and the overall business generates $40 million.

That is a buttload of velvet paintings and salt and pepper shakers.

Forbes magazine lists him as the "second highest grossing dead celebrity".

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If'n' you care.

I'm about halfway through. I'll digest the main points -- if there are any -- when it's done.

Not Worth It. Bryan at Hot Air will post on it in a couple of minutes. Save your time and read his digest.

Beinert claims "conservatives only claim this is untrue because they don't believe that war can change a man in negative ways" AND "conservatives claim we shouldn't have run these pieces EVEN IF THEY'RE TRUE because they hurt morale" or something, and, quite frankly, Goldberg challenges him pretty weakly.

On that first point? Would have been a good time to remind Beinert that Scott Beauchamp was "changed by war" before he got into war. Goldberg does mention that earlier, but I sure would have liked to have seen Beinert reminded of that as he's on his "war changes a man and conservatives are just silly to deny it" jag.

Bryan's Rip: is now up.

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The Taliban and Al Qaeda is getting roughed up, and the BBC wistfully pines for civilian casualties.

Alas, no reported civilians dead yet.

US and Afghan forces searching for militants on the Pakistani border have inflicted heavy casualties on al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters, officials say.

The governor of Ningrahar province said that the operation in Tora Bora was going "very well" and that al-Qaeda and the Taleban had suffered heavy losses.

But a spokesman for the governor, Nooar Agha Zwak, said he could not give precise casualty details.

No additional news in the article, and even that vague report -- "heavy losses" -- comes without even an estimate of casualties.

Why are there no photographers or cameramen present at this fight? The BBC relies on old stock pictures; I haven't seen any fresh ones. The AP can embed a photographer with Hamas but no media organization can manage to position a photographer at the scene of a battle where we're pounding hell out of the enemy?

Really? They can't? Or they won't?

Has anyone noticed how very, very little pictures or footage we see of American or coalition forces actually doing what Americans like to see them doing-- killing Taliban and Al Qaeda?

Why is that, do you think?

The other day someone objected, presumably on grounds of taste, to my posting of the Flyin' Imam mortar-strike. But the fact of the matter is that the visual evidence of tangible progress in war -- pictures, film, video -- has always been a crucial component of sustaining homefront morale. Like it or not, we want to see our boys killing their boys. Not just for sadistic reasons; just for the simple reason of undeniable confirmation we're accomplishing something, even if it's a few jihadis at a time.

Think of all the footage of WWII combat. We have an entire cable channel that plays almost nothing else.

And yet in this war it seems that there's almost no combat photography. Partly this is because the military either doesn't bother with much of it itself anymore, maybe because they see every military cameraman as someone who'd better serve the cause by shooting a gun instead. Which is understandable, I guess.

But a bigger part of it is the lack of media interest. Embedding with units, according to media chin-scratchers, is now unacceptable propagandizing on behalf of the dreaded Bush and his evil war for oil (and oil pipelines). Are there no media in either theater who are interested in being choppered to major engagements to report and take pictures? You know, stuff journalists are supposed to do?

The net effect is a decrease in morale. We see every torn body of every child killed by Iraqi terror-bombs, meticulously and lovingly documented by the media, but barely a single terrorist coming to a bad end. We see US soldiers killed by terrorists -- the terrorists sometimes bring cameras -- and that's shown on CNN.

But showing terrorists blasted to hell would be, what, pandering? Jingoistic? In bad taste?

This is balance?

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Big, transformational stuff, though he doesn't say yet what this stuff might be.

When Fred Thompson makes his long-delayed entrance into the Republican presidential race, he will not tiptoe quietly. Instead, he will try to shake up the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation in peril from fiscal and security threats -- and prescribing tough cures that he says others shrink from offering.

In a two-hour conversation over coffee at a restaurant near his Virginia headquarters, the former senator from Tennessee said that when he joins the battle next month, he "will take some risks that others are not willing to take, in terms of forcing a dialogue on our entitlement situation, our military situation and what it's going to cost" to ensure the nation's future.

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"There's no reason for me to run just to be president," he said. "I don't desire the emoluments of the office. I don't want to live a lie and clever my way to the nomination or election. But if you can put your ideas out there -- different, more far-reaching ideas -- that is worth doing."

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The approach Thompson says he's contemplating is one that will step on many sensitive political toes. When he says "we're getting a free ride" fighting a necessary war in Iraq with an undersized military establishment, "wearing out our people and equipment," it sounds like a criticism of the president and the Pentagon.

When he says he would have opposed adding the prescription drug benefit to Medicare, "a $17 trillion add-on to a program that's going bankrupt," he is fighting the bipartisan judgment of the last Congress.

When he says the FBI is perhaps incapable of morphing itself into the smart domestic security agency the country needs, he is attacking another sacred cow.

"Clever my way." I like that. I like words used as the wrong part of speech, like when a friend of mine, figuring out how to pick up a chick, said, "This will take all my suave."

A big concern is the growing cohort of retirees and the strains that puts on Medicare and Medicaid:

"Nobody in Congress or on either side in the presidential race wants to deal with it," Thompson said. "So we just rock along and try to maintain the status quo. Republicans say keep the tax cuts; Democrats say keep the entitlements. And we become a less unified country in the process, with a tax code that has become an unholy mess, and all we do is tinker around the edges."

I don't know about that last part. He seems to be criticizing both sides for the mess, which is fine and all as far as rhetoric, but I hope he's not planning to rescind the tax cuts. The tone of this part of the interview -- hints about Uncomfortable Truths and Straight-Talk That Upsets The Party Wisdom and Bipartisan Solutions -- reminds me of He Who Shall Not Be Nominated, John McCain.

Is Fred thinking that while the McCain candidacy is dead, the McCain constituency is very much alive and ripe for the picking? If so, this would be a much different Teh Fred than what we've been imagining. Then again, this interview is with David Broder, he of gauzy faith in bipartisan solutions and hopes of never-quite-explicated uncomfortable truth-tellings, so maybe Broder is just hearing what he wants to hear. Or Teh Fred is just having a bit of fun with the coot.

Thanks to someone.

In related Fred news, two (sorry to say) quite miss-able articles about whether Fred has timed this all perfectly or whether he's missed his moment.

Given that he's doing 90% of what a declared candidate would be doing, I can't see how simply not having declared yet is hurting him. And for the life of me I never get crap like this:
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Don't I know it.

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