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Posted by: DrewM. at 05:04 PM | Comments (15)
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There is nothing, nothing I say, not a goddammed thing to suggest that the American Experience is exceptional.

This is what leftist apologists eat for breakfast and lunch, and make a big stinky with, something to drop on your dining room table the next day.

We are the Romans (the filthy Scandis are gathering in the north!). We are the Brits, and we will get our comeuppance (how the fuck is that spelled?) at Islandwana any day now.

I left out the Spanish, but honestly who's impressed with their track record?

All Hegemons™ get what's coming to them. All of them.

The Chinese cannot take us on, they are too busy beating rabid dogs to death in the streets. Their interests are regional.

This wordsmithing is what passes for thinking at the LAT:

the only way one can believe that geopolitics will not also become multipolar is to believe that the U.S. is somehow exempt from what seems one of history's few ironclad laws. And that is not analysis; that is faith.

This silly douche had to work in the word "faith" into his analysis. He was feeling that tender.

It's more leftist pap, he moves from one goalpost to the next. My personal favorite, his assertion that military strength is fast becoming an anachronistic measure of weakness.

That one will make you laugh.

Whatever. The cockatiel will shit on this tomorrow, and that's more attention that it deserves. They cannot bear the idea, cannot wrap their warped brains around it, that "good and decent" can be a guiding principle. It is anathema.

David Rieff is the author of many books, none of which have been quoted on the floor of the US Senate, but he's young, and fate may smile upon him yet.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 04:29 PM | Comments (29)
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Not really a spoof of the media per se, except if you consider this is precisely what they don't do.

Funny? Or die? I dunno, I suck today.

Thanks to Dave at Garfield Ridge, giving it his official "It's Not Old!" Seal of Freshness.

Posted by: Ace at 02:12 PM | Comments (15)
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Protein Wisdom just tipped me, though I've been watching it too.

I guess I didn't think much of that statement because I don't expect it to cut much ice among the Community-Based Reality folks-- it conflicts with their worldview and so is by definition untrue.

After all, he's General BetrayUs.

I am learning to appreciate the nuance and elevated wit of the left. See, those of us on the right cannot so easily come up with such tastelessly puerile puns on people's names. Our brains just aren't subtle enough for such eldritch thought-patterns and unexpected connections and unlikely rhymes.

For what it's worth, it might be a good idea to sign this petition:

Sign the Stand By The Mission Petition!

Stolen from Instapundit, Petraeus' main points, digested. Although digested at great length.

Same for Crocker.

Posted by: Ace at 01:44 PM | Comments (17)
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The mystery of whether the other woman buried with her was a relative who died with her, or a servant killed and buried with her to do the cooking and cleaning in the afterlife.

Which is a possibility.

The remains were originally discovered in 1904, both bodies buried in a longboat. The boat (known as the Oseberg boat) is in a museum in Oslo, but the bones were reburied in 1948.

I'm not sure why they want to know this, unless it's a way to test their crazy-mad DNA testing skills. Other Viking graves have been found with two bodies, one of which was decapitated. Being a Viking servant was apparently a pretty lousy job.

There were spectators present.

Among those at the graveside was a man dressed as a Viking with a sword hanging from his belt. "This is an experience you get once in a lifetime," said Leszek Gardela, 23, a Polish student of archaeology

Leszek Gardela cares. And so should we all.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 11:57 AM | Comments (21)
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The second man to walk on the Moon says thereÂ’s much to be "admired" in the way Capt. Lisa Nowak took care of business when she found out she had a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut.

"Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities," Aldrin said in comments published on Time magazine's Web site.

"I think Nowak should be admired for traveling across the country at night and not getting out of her car to put in gas or go to the restroom. It is not excusable, but it is understandable for an achiever to fall into a trap."

I am not sure the ability to hold off peeing while driving is exactly a superpower normally associated with the Right Stuff but okay. It kind of makes sense when you consider Buzz is an action type guy. Remember what happened the last time someone got all up in AldrinÂ’s grill?

Posted by: DrewM. at 11:44 AM | Comments (34)
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A guy named Kareem keeps sending me these absurd anti-Giuliani/anti-Republican/anti-war ads, swearing to me they're actually pro-Rudy/pro-GOP/pro-war. Just subtly so.

One thing that's a constant annoyance is liberals' unshakable belief that they are more intelligent than every single man and woman on the GOP side of the aisle simply by virtue of their preferred politics. Demonstrable IQ, general knowledge and know-how, accomplishment, education, wit, etc.: None of these actually establish intelligence or craftiness or cunning or wisdom. No, the single variable in the equation -- conveniently enough for intellectually-anxious liberals -- is a belief in liberal policies.

As a general rule, of course, the less intelligent one is, the more one wants to shift the measure of intelligence to non-traditional metrics, such as simple political affiliation. Though even fairly bright liberals tack on a bonus fifteen points to their measurable IQ just for "being smart enough to know Democrats good, Republicans bad."

I'm posting this absurdity in the hopes that the guy trying to moronically trick me finally gets it that I cannot be tricked, and furthermore, getting me to post this does nothing to advance his cause because you can't be fooled by such a drooling dunderhead, either.

So here you go, Kareem. As you've long desired: The "pro-Rudy/pro-war" video that's really going to sock it to the liberals. Giggle.

Nicely done. You played us, Hoss.

Incidentally, just as a related thing, a Behind the Scenes at the Ace of Spades HQ blog: A lot of liberals fill up my inbox with very long posts from liberals. They cleverly have created email handles of "AnnCoulter2000" and so forth, and cutely address me as "spinmeister" and the like. Almost invariably, they send me Glenn Greenwald's turgid 10,000 word Magna Carters (heh, see what I did there?) and the occasional post from, ahem, lesser lights of the liberal blogosphere.

I don't get it. Apparently they think they're informing me or really sticking the knife in my side. Apparently they don't understand that 1) most of them are already in the killfile, and 2) I can tell what sort of email this is going to be from the title line, and 3) even if I bothered to read it, I don't quite consider Glenn Greenwald the brave Sage of Invincible Persnickettiness that they do.

In short, they've got a curious misapprehension about the power of their ideas (and I use that term guardedly) and a surfeit of free time and a rather absurd idea that "guerrilla politics" can be conducted via Gmail.

Guys? Seriously? I could not give less of a shit were I simultaneously starving to death and suffering from a blockage of the large intestine due to a sexual stunt involving a full-size model of the Robot from Lost In Space gone horribly awry.

Danger, Danger, Dr. Smith! Stop tapping your toes next to my locomotive treads! Danger, danger!

Please grow up. You're not an annoyance. It's just that I think your time would be better spent praying to your Gods, Al Gore The Father, Madonna The Mother, and Maya Angelou, The Holy Spirit of Poems Which Do Not Rhyme and Spend An Inordinate Amount of Time Discussing Rocks, Streams, and Mothers Milk from Africa.

Kareem Says he wasn't trying to pull the wool over my eyes, he just found the video interesting, and he's sorry to have pestered me. And I do believe him.

So I retract the thing specifically about Kareem. But the greater narrative is still true, even if factually I was off-base. Facts, as we now know, are soooooo 1990's. We're beyond stupid facts.

So if Kareem shows up, don't knock him. I believe him. I'm not sure what he finds compelling about these videos, but different folks have different opinions.

Another Theory: A reader has been getting barraged with these videos as well, and believes the following: The videos come from a genuine conservative website, but are actually in support of the one major candidate they never knock (which he says is John McCain). He says he gets similar responses when he writes that these are not pro-Rudy but rather anti-Rudy: "well they're funny anyway."

So maybe a bit of viral video attempts from someone "our side" but trying to push a particular candidate; I dunno. I'd be more willing to link them if I thought they were funny, but I honestly don't.

Posted by: Ace at 10:50 AM | Comments (34)
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Halo fans (and I know many of you are) are eagerly awaiting Halo's third and final installment in two weeks. As with all games, films, and books these days, advanced copies can be had, usually through the internet and penalties are not usually that severe for minor violations.

But at least one fellow has received a 7,992-year ban from xBox Live for downloading and playing the latest build of Halo 3.

Microsoft reps aren't allowed to officially respond, but a Bungie staff member is quoted as saying the screenshots of the message "looked legit" also adding "Sorry, great, great, great, great grandkids".

That's one player who won't be Finishing the Fight.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 10:13 AM | Comments (49)
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Nuance.

So is Osama bin Laden truly "evil?" Most people who lost family members at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 would probably consider him to be evil. Was President Ronald Reagan evil? Most residents of Beirut who lost family members when the USS New Jersey rained 2,700 pound Mark 7 shells on residential neighborhoods in 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War probably considered Reagan to have been evil. Bottom line? Bin Laden is no more evil than other revolutionary leaders in other times or even than ordinary national leaders who propel their countries to war for "national honor," or to acquire the resources of others, or even to "do good."

Bill Hobbs makes short, bloody work of this objective pro-Islamofascist.

Posted by: Ace at 10:11 AM | Comments (17)
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As well as the Democratic response -- with a MoveOn ad calling him General BetrayUs -- at Allah.

It's been on for a half hour or so.

Posted by: Ace at 09:08 AM | Comments (35)
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