Rick Moran comments:

The fact is, Mookie is in a bind of his own making. He has withdrawn his ministers and members of parliament from the government hoping that it would collapse and that he could move in and pick up the pieces. That didn't happen and, in fact, his move had the opposite effect. Al-Sadr was an obstacle to reconciliation and since his departure, the parliament has passed several necessary measures to get the healing process underway.

I think this is bluster. But if it's not, we'll see if Iraqis have grown fond of normalcy enough to join us against this paid Iranian thug.

Thanks to dri.

Posted by: Ace at 01:11 PM | Comments (16)
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The video below may seem nauseatingly cute, but mostly I'm posting it for the racial stereotypes about consonant substitution. more...

Posted by: Ace at 12:45 PM | Comments (22)
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Democrats seem to have a strange conception of toughness.

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I knew it.

Or at least many women may not have one. Like, every damn woman I've ever gone out with, for starters.

The mysterious G spot - supposedly a route to female sexual satisfaction - can be located with ultrasound, claim Italian scientists.

Some women say stimulating a certain part of the vagina triggers powerful orgasms, but medicine has not been able to pin down the exact location.

Researchers told New Scientist magazine they found an area of thicker tissue among the women reporting orgasms.

But specialists warned there could be other reasons for this difference.

The existence of the G spot has remained controversial since the 1980s, when the term was coined as a way to explain why some women were able to achieve orgasm through vaginal stimulation, while others were not.

Some specialists claim that the term has led to over-anxiety among women who cannot reach satisfaction this way, and their partners.

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Dr Jannini said: "For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has got a G spot or not."

However, Dr Tim Spector, from St Thomas' Hospital in London, told New Scientist that the thicker tissue might actually be part of the clitoris - another extremely sensitive area.

And that's the next goddamned myth that needs to be debunked. Let's get that fairy-tale rubbished post-haste.

And finally: foreplay.

Via Hot Air. more...

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Hard to hate a guy who did this. The last line is the funny one, the one you might not know about.

Oh! And this should help make McCain more palatable to you racist Rethuglicans, too.

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As if these cocksuckers needed such instruction.

From: Flexner, Allison
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:46 AM
To: *CNN Superdesk (TBS)
Cc: Neill, Morgan; Darlington, Shasta
Subject: Castro guidance

Some points on Castro – for adding to our anchor reads/reporting:

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* Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.

* Also the Cuban government blames a lot of Cuba’s economic problems on the US embargo, and while that has caused some difficulties, (far less so than the collapse of the Soviet Union) the bulk of Cuba’s economic problems are due to Cuba’s failed economic polices. Some analysts would say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically – something to blame problems on, by what the Cubans call “the imperialist,” meddling in their affairs.

* While despised by some, he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in Latin America, for standing up to the United States.

Any questions, please call the international desk.

Allison

Are you fucking kidding me?

H/t to Karol.

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From another guy's account. With the same name.

Don't they like, I don't know, check signatures or something for that kind of money?

Benjamin Lovell was arraigned Tuesday on grand larceny charges. The 48-year-old salesman said he tried to tell officials at Commerce Bank in December that he did not have a $5 million account. He says he was told it was his and he could withdraw the money.

Oh. The bank convinced him over his objections that it was his.

Normally for me, it's kinda the other way around with my bank. I try to convince them I have money and they object.

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He's already making deals like he's the Democratic nominee. Twenty minutes ago USA Today published this letter from Obama proposing spending limits for the general election. Yeah, he makes a nod to the unfinished primary campaign--"if I am my party's nominee"--but he's not acting like it.

I propose a meaningful agreement in good faith that results in real spending limits. The candidates will have to commit to discouraging cheating by their supporters; to refusing fundraising help to outside groups; and to limiting their own parties to legal forms of involvement. And the agreement may have to address the amounts that Senator McCain, the presumptive nominee of his party, will spend for the general election while the Democratic primary contest continues.

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We can have such an agreement this year, and it could hold up. I am committed to seeking such an agreement if that commitment is matched by Senator McCain. When the time comes, we will talk and our commitment will be tested.

I will pass that test, and I hope that the Republican nominee passes his.

Clinton has been on Obama's case for not committing to spending limits in the general. This nicely defuses that bomb firecracker.

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Not just mostly dead. All dead. Nothing to do now but check the pockets for coins.

I was working on writing this but Allah has of course beat me to it.

Not only does Hillary have no chance whatsoever now, but even she realizes this. At this point she begins pivoting, accepting her fate, to become a Gore-like figure, never to be president but to have sway within the Democratic party.

The idea of Hillary destroying the Democratic Party to get the nomination? Out the window. She would have done that if it were close, if it were not so clear she will never be President, but it's not going to be close and that is now clear even to her.

She will continue soldiering along, hoping for a break (as anyone would), but she will not go after Obama with brass knuckles at the next debate. There's no percentage in it for her. Her next-best option now is simply to be a beloved standard bearer of the liberal left.

And now that her presidential ambitions are scotched, she will move to unabashed left-liberalism, where her heart has always been, just like another loser, Al Gore.

I realize a lot of Republicans have been waiting for this, but honestly, she was always a very weak candidate easily defeated in the general, and only she was capable of unifying the Republicans behind the Maverick. I fear that the election is all but lost at this point.

Thanks... to slublog for the awesome 'shop.

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Slublog posted this in the headline sidebar but it really deserves to be a post because it's just so delightfully horrid.

A new twist on the passive-aggressive customer punishments that the food service industry is known for.

Joe Delucci's owner Mr Langsdon said the message had been meant to be seen only by kitchen staff and he did not know how it ended up as an item on the receipt.

At least they didn't charge her for it.

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