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Because if they take away our cleavage-enhancing miracle bras, the terrorists will have won.

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Posted by: Dave In Texas at 12:43 PM | Comments (15)
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"Stop the Neocon Madmen."

Heh. With video.

I'm curious about what the hell "neocon" means anymore. It seems to mean so many things to so many people.

Am I a neocon? Are you guys? I don't know. I imagine I'm not a paleocon.

I suppose I have nothing against paleocons-- they are cons, so there's that. But what does a paleocon actually believe?

Posted by: Ace at 12:37 PM | Comments (52)
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House Democrats are still jumping at shadows cast by Karl Rove as they start their investigation into whether corrupt former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was targeted for political reasons. Siegelman was convicted of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud in 2006 and sentenced to seven years and four months in prison.

Their star witness is a lawyer named Jill Simpson who will testify next week that she overheard one end of a phonecall that led her to believe that none other than Rove himself had a hand in ending SiegelmanÂ’s career.

The parties to the phonecall and other Department of Justice staff associated with the case have denied SimpsonÂ’s claims. The DoJ has also gotten into the act, refusing to give its casefiles to the DemocratsÂ’ investigation.

One thing is undisputed: Siegelman was a corrupt public official who got his day in court and lost. Democrats canÂ’t say he was innocent; the best theyÂ’ve got now is to say that he wouldnÂ’t have been caught if it werenÂ’t for Republicans led by Karl Rove.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 12:03 PM | Comments (19)
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Kind of like Jihadi MuppetBabies.

Posted by: Ace at 11:33 AM | Comments (6)
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Oh, dear. There's no doubt Bill Bellichik is some kind of genius, but perhaps part of the secret of his genius is less than sporting.

NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team's sideline during Sunday's game against the Jets in a suspected spying incident, sources said.

The camera and its tape were placed in a sealed box and forwarded to the league office for investigation, the sources said.

"The rule is that no video recording devices of any kind are permitted to be in use in the coaches' booth, on the field, or in the locker room during the game," the league said in a statement from spokesman Greg Aiello. "Clubs have specifically been reminded in the past that the videotaping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals on the sidelines is prohibited.

"We are looking into whether the Patriots violated this rule."

The Patriots' cameraman was suspected of aiming his camera at the Jets' defensive coaches who were sending signals to their unit on the field, the sources said. The league also is investigating some radio frequency issues that occurred during the game.

Sounds like this happens somewhat frequently.

Posted by: Ace at 11:20 AM | Comments (30)
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ABC Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg is saying that Ted Olson will be President Bush's replacement for Attorney General Gonzales.

Ted Olson is a former Solicitor General and is seriously unpopular with Democrats. He was confirmed by only 51-47 votes in 2001. Democrats don't like him, in part, because he successfully argued Bush v. Gore, but Greenburg reports that some in the Bush Administration think the Democrats will be able to put that behind them given Olson's job performance as Solicitor General. I'm not convinced.

Incidentally, today is both Olson's birthday and the anniversary of the death of his wife, Barbara Olson, on American Airlines Flight 77.

UPDATE:Drudge says "announcement could be imminent" according to "top sources."

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 10:55 AM | Comments (25)
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I linked this yesterday in my drunk post, but Little Miss Atilla excerpts it more fully.

Here's some of it:

It seems both fair and accurate to note that there is a confluence of interests between bin Laden and those Americans who seek defeat in Iraq. It is little wonder that this is an embarrassment to the latter. But it would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that this is anything more than a de facto tactical alliance. The Angry Left wants America to lose in Iraq for its own ideological and partisan purposes, which have little to do with the establishment of a global caliphate.

So what are we to make of bin Laden's striking a pose as a global warmist who hates capitalism? Here's a theory: Slate reports that by one estimate 10% of al Qaeda's "soldiers in the global jihad" are converts to radical Islamism, a religion/ideology that, as Slate puts it, "has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people."

Blogger Roger L. Simon speculates that "the true author (or scriptwriter) of the tape" is Adam Gadahn, né Pearlman, an American-born "spokesman" for al Qaeda who, as The New Yorker reported earlier this year, had a decidedly countercultural upbringing -- raised by hippie parents who converted to Christianity and lived on an isolated farm raising goats. A "shy, bookish" boy who rebelled against his parents' faith, Gadahn immersed himself in the world of satanic "death metal" before converting to Islam.

More there at the link, plus the original link to the Taranto piece.

That says it rather well. They are not united in ultimate goals, but do share a belief that the current regime must be destroyed or at least greatly diminished by one way or another before the New Utopia can come. They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes, and to that extent, they have a shared enemy.

Posted by: Ace at 10:34 AM | Comments (23)
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Interesting because it's a look back at a time which now seems as remote and unconnected to the past as the Elizabethan age, and also interesting because the problems it is widely claimed are all due to Bush's illegal wars -- Iraq, unrest in Palestine -- seem to have been problems before the first plane struck.

Posted by: Ace at 09:54 AM | Comments (7)
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Note: Graphic. Content warning.

Another Note: The video claims the conversation terminated with the collapse of the building. I don't believe that could be true (were people still alive on high floors at that point? It seems impossible) so it seems like an attempt to over-dramatize that which does not need additional drama or tragedy.

The call however is sickening.

Posted by: Ace at 09:40 AM | Comments (29)
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Reposted. Again. Written 9/11/2007.

I did in fact try to think of something new to write. I couldn't. The politicized nature of this was kind of inapprorpriate when I first wrote it, and remains so now.

Nevertheless, I stand by every word. Especially with President Drum Circle in office.

As I'd previously apologized:

NOTE: This is a politicized remembrance of 9/11, so you may wish to skip it. I didn't set out to write it this way, but this is how it turned out; I couldn't just mouth the cliches about us all being united on 9/11 without noting how illusory and false that feeling turned out to be, like a love gone bad.

I apologize for that direction, but I can't see how to avoid the obvious. We've been mythologizing 9/11 bringing us closer than ever before; maybe we can interrupt this myth-making from time to time to note it actually divided us more than ever in our history. It was actually my intent to write the same old cute story of that feeling of being united; when I got there, however, it was a bitter cliche and a lie I choked on.

I do not understand now, as I didn't understand then, how so many people could be willing to forgive and forget just to either 1) keep consistent to a Blame America philosophy lying tangled in molten beams at One World Trade Center, or 2) to move blame away from a politically inconvenient group (jihadis who need to be dealt with the in the bad old "Republican" way) to a more convenient group (Republicans themselves).

Until last week, President Clove Cigarette had a Truther as a high adviser/czar.

That's where we are. But that has always been where we were; the crap about "unity" was always a lie.

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Posted by: Ace at 09:00 AM | Comments (198)
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