Fat, psychopathic and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

A teenager accused of plotting a school attack wrote that he wanted "instant recognition" for shooting a record number of victims and that he wouldn't feel sorry about it, according to documents unsealed Tuesday.

A black spiral notebook authorities obtained from the 16-year-old boy's locker at Penn High School in Mishawaka, Ind., contained handwritten entries in which the teen expressed his hatred for most of the people at the school.

"I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition. The only thing that stops me is the fact of being put in jail forever, or having to kill myself, or getting killed by an officer. I could kill anyone without feeling sorry because society sucks!!!" read an entry dated April 18, the day before he was arrested.

The teenager has been charged with a juvenile count of conspiracy to commit murder and a denial plea has been entered on his behalf. A hearing is scheduled on June 11 to determine whether he'll stay in juvenile custody.

He is accused of plotting with Lee Billi, 33, of suburban Cleveland. Authorities said Billi and the teenager exchanged e-mails in April, discussing simultaneous mass murders at the teen's high school and at another location that police haven't identified.

What a pathetic cliche. I sure hope he at least had some novel, interesting reason for his would-be mass-murder.

According to the documents, the teenager told authorities his violent thoughts began when his girlfriend broke up with him.

Ah. I guess not.

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For once "It's not you, it's me" seems to tell the truth of it.

I love you, baby -- but I just don't feel right loving you if I don't have plastic genitals.

Here's the question, which I really don't know the answer to: Is this guy gay?

I mean, supposedly he's a lesbian now, but who are we kidding? He's a dude with a Nerf Vagina. He's married to a woman. So he's... straight? I guess?

See? It's like a mind-puzzle, and incredible mind-puzzle.

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Between now and the Dem National Convention in August.

McCain, the Republican nominee-in-waiting, sent his Democratic rival a letter Wednesday outlining the offer. He suggested the first town hall be held June 12 in New York.

He said President Kennedy had made such an agreement with former Senator Barry Goldwater for the 1964 election before Kennedy's assassination.

It's a pretty good move on McCain's part (as was the Iraq trip suggestion). He's aiming right at Barack's weakness, unscripted interchange. Obama's not very good on his feet in these settings. In fact, I think it's such a good move Obama will refuse, or insist on some formatting.

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Yousa sayin' people gonna vote?

"We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama," Lucas said when asked who his childhood heroes were.

Obama, "for all of us that have dreams and hope, is a hero," Lucas said.

Meesa now hating the Indiana Jones movie even more than when meesa saw it a week ago. Meesa was so bored by its tedious incompetence meesa didn't want to write a review.

The Making of Indiana Jones 4: From the guy who did this great "The Lord of the Rings as Directed by George Lucas" toon, a new (-ish) hit on Lucas:

Oh, here's Frank Darabont briefly explaining how George Lucas fired him from writing Indy 4.

Not enough Jar-Jar, I guess.

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LJ points to a pro-Hillary site called HillBuzz, which now claims:

Here's what's known so far:

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.

Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.

Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.

Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant --- his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems.

For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on "whitey", and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.

The "tape" is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.

DrewM. wants to know if the tape enjoyed such large-scale circulation (or at least was easily downloadable) it hasn't leaked yet. It would be in at least several dozen hands, wouldn't it?

The HillBuzz blogger says all that's necessary is for reporters to track the tape down and watch it. But that presumes it exists in the first place, and this latest nugget (which seems, I don't know, kinda just made up) makes that proposition even more dubious than before.

I don't like how this isn't sourced at all -- "here's what's known," as if knowledge just floated about in the air -- nor do I much like how we are being offered more and more details about the tape -- where, when, why -- without actually being offered the tape. If so damn much is known about the tape, then someone has it, and if someone has it, then where the hell is it?

It wouldn't be terribly hard to simply begin reeling off ostensibly confirmatory details about a tape that doesn't exist. It is, after all, impossible to prove a negative. The next batch of details will tell us what Michelle Obama was wearing when she launched into her anti-Whitey rant -- and those details aren't hard to provide; after all, we have a picture of her at the conference, posing with fellow panelists -- and so on and so forth, each new detail offered up to convince people that with so many verifiable details about the circumstances of the rant, the tale about the rant must also be true.

But it doesn't have to be. I can start claiming that Michelle Obama actually murdered someone at this event, providing the same details (when, where, why, what she was wearing, how she had her hair) to suggest that I must know something.

All we know is what we already knew -- she was there at a certain time and spoke on a panel. Providing additional details about a triviality doesn't establish the veracity of the important alleged fact.

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Suddenly he's John F'n' Bolton.

[Obama's New Position:] "Contrary to the claims to some, I have no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking. But as president of the United States, I would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leaders at a time and place of my choosing if and only if it can advance the interest of the United States. That is my position. I want to be absolutely clear."

Compare that with what Obama said during the CNN/Youtube debate:

QUESTION: Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea?

OBAMA: "I would. And the reason is this: the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them--which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous. Ronald Reagan constantly spoke to Soviet Union at a time when he called them an evil empire. He understood that we may not trust them and they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we had the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward. And I think that it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them."

But now Obama has put a major condition on his willingness to meet with Iran: he will meet only if such a meeting advances the interests of the U.S.

That is not much different from the Bush Administration's position on negotiations with Iran.

"Change you can believe in" has a highly nuanced "don't fix what ain't broken" component, apparently. Who knew?

More: Bob Owens and The Weekly Standard want to know why True Friend of Israel Obama opposed a simple, truthful declaration that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were a terrorist organization.

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Our fellow moron Sobek created this ad.
Look; we know there's pro-McCain and anti-McCain morons in attendance on the blog, here. We can yell back and forth at each other all day long about his values, his character and about how he will redefine the Republican party.

Sobek brings up an important matter of the man's....upbringing, shall we say. Something nobody ever talks about.

Below the fold: the elephant in the room. more...

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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

...Petraeus deserves the lion's share of the credit; luck and time and the self-defeating nihilism of the Jihadists have helped. But Bush and McCain equally merit points for pursuing the surge, even though the metrics pointed to failure. Obama needs to capitalize on these gains, not dismiss them.

Below the fold - Official 2009 Democrat Party Statement on Iraq (lifted shamelessly from a comment by Just Askin over at CY) more...

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Or in many months. Read the whole thing.

Of all that has been written about the play of things in Iraq, nothing that I have seen approximates the truth of what our ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, recently said of this war: "In the end, how we leave and what we leave behind will be more important than how we came."

It is odd, then, that critics have launched a new attack on the origins of the war at precisely the time a new order in Iraq is taking hold. But American liberal opinion is obsessive today. Scott McClellan can't be accused of strategic thinking, but he has been anointed a peer of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. A witness and a presumed insider – a "Texas loyalist" – has "flipped."

Mr. McClellan wades into the deep question of whether this war was a war of "necessity" or a war of "choice." He does so in the sixth year of the war, at a time when many have forgotten what was thought and said before its onset. The nation was gripped by legitimate concern over gathering dangers in the aftermath of 9/11. Kabul and the war against the Taliban had not sufficed, for those were Arabs who struck America on 9/11. A war of deterrence had to be waged against Arab radicalism, and Saddam Hussein had drawn the short straw. He had not ducked, he had not scurried for cover. He openly mocked America's grief, taunted its power.

We don't need to overwork the stereotype that Arabs understand and respond to the logic of force, but this is a region sensitive to the wind, and to the will of outside powers. Before America struck into Iraq, a mere 18 months after 9/11, there had been glee in the Arab world, a sense that America had gotten its comeuppance. There were regimes hunkering down, feigning friendship with America while aiding and abetting the forces of terror.

Liberal opinion in America and Europe may have scoffed when President Bush drew a strict moral line between order and radicalism – he even inserted into the political vocabulary the unfashionable notion of evil – but this sort of clarity is in the nature of things in that Greater Middle East. It is in categories of good and evil that men and women in those lands describe their world. The unyielding campaign waged by this president made a deep impression on them.

Nowadays, we hear many who have never had a kind word to say about the Iraq War pronounce on the retreat of the jihadists. It is as though the Islamists had gone back to their texts and returned with second thoughts about their violent utopia. It is as though the financiers and the "charities" that aided the terror had reconsidered their loyalties and opted out of that sly, cynical trade. Nothing could be further from the truth. If Islamism is on the ropes, if the regimes in the saddle in key Arab states now show greater resolve in taking on the forces of radicalism, no small credit ought to be given to this American project in Iraq.

We should give the "theorists" of terror their due and read them with some discernment. To a man, they have told us that they have been bloodied in Iraq, that they have been surprised by the stoicism of the Americans, by the staying power of the Bush administration.

That's all I can quote. Read the whole thing.

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No Concession from Hills; "No Decisions" At This Time:

FREEEEEEEDOM!!!

Thanks to Sluey.

By the way: GRC says this feature hangs up comments in the regular commenting section. So, I'll take the feature out of the last post (the "Last Stupid Primary Results" thread post), where people can comment normally.

That way people can either check this thing out or comment the normal way.

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