One can only assume the Jews want it this way.

RT @danabashcnn Sources in both parties tell me compromise in the works to delay vote on Hagel, but make it a 51 vote threshold not 60.

— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) February 14, 2013

(You should definitely be following Brian on Twitter).

In 2005 the Democrats led by Harry Reid filibustered John Bolton's nomination to be Secretary of State. Now the GOP is just rolling over to let this clearly unqualified, anti-Semitic nut job run the Defense Department.

What good is the GOP at this point? At the very least it's time for conservatives to de-enroll from the party. We can figure out what comes next later.

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The report is based on a contemporaneous blog post from a Hagel supporter who was at a speech Hagel gave in 2007 at an even sponsored by Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the American Iranian Council.

At this point I'm not surprised by Hagel's casual and repeated anti-Semitic world view. I shouldn't be surprised by his pervasive idiocy either yet even this is shockingly stupid.

The general view has always been that if State leaned either-way in the Mideast it was because of the "Arabists" within the department. Now you can dismiss that as scaremongering as well but at least that was the general theory people threw around. I don't remember even the most hardcore nutjobs ever postulating that the Jews were running State. Given the hostility towards a lot of what Israel does in terms of settlements and our refusal to even put our embassy in their declared capital, saying the Jews run State is like saying the Quakers are secretly running the CIA's drone program.

Hagel's nomination is set for a vote tomorrow but it might be postponed. Unfortunately, he still may ultimately have the votes in the end. It's a fluid situation. Any delay will help because there's obviously more out there on this idiot.

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Suppose you have a major manufacturer of tech junk, CPU's, video cards, etc that has a support site for driver downloads, specs, blah, blah who'll remain anonymous, but we'll just call them AMD for convenience.

You're merrily zooming around to find the right drivers for some video card, and run into a busted link to some crucial information and get bitch slapped by the dreaded 404.

That the link existed in the first place suggests that the information may have existed at some point, right? So where did it go? Alien abduction? Black holes? Flesh eating bacteria?

If you were a vendor with a support site, that customers depend on, that saves you money by avoiding having to handle support calls, wouldn't it be useful to have some sort of site maintenance tool that would detect bad links in your support pages so the idiot webmasters that caused them by flinging code around with the grace of hyenas dining on a carcass can fix them?

Of course that tool would be useful. Back in the stone-age, we used to have such tools. Scratchings on cave walls in France indicate they were called web crawlers.

Openificate the RANTZ. Go ahead, fling the invective, name names, suggest your most creative punishments for your tormentors. Vent now.

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Honestly the Syrian civil war is fantastic for the US as is....jihadis killing Assad's troops, Assad's troops killing jihadis and the occasional high ranking Iranian General gets killed by, who cares?

Al-Manar did not disclose the name of the Iranian official and only described him as the head of an Iranian agency responsible for "rebuilding Lebanon." According to the report, the incident occurred on Syrian soil when the Iranian official was on his way back from Damascus to Lebanon.

An Iranian independent news website - mashreghnews.ir - reported earlier that the name of the Iranian official was Gen. Hassan Shateri, a commander in the Guard's Quds Force. The report said the attack was carried out by "mercenaries of the Zionist regime," however the credibility of the report is unclear.

The report added that Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, the head of the Guard's Quds Force, visited Shateri's family to express his condolences. The website did not provide additional details about his death.

The Quds Force is Iran's main organization dealing with international terrorist activity with the cooperation of several different terrorist organizations which are backed by Iran. In the past, Israeli intelligence officials described Soleimani as the central figure in Iran's terrorist network.

About the Quds Force, that's the group that Iran used to run its shadow war against the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bastards are responsible for a lot of American deaths and injuries.

Hopefully Shateri's death was slow and painful.

Yes, I know a lot of civilians are hurt by the fighting in Syria but from a cold hard US perspective, the more time the bad guys spend fighting and killing each other the better.

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Happy Thursday.

The DOD's new medal for cyber and drone warfare is getting a fair bit of scrutiny.

Sen. Graham's Hatch-like reinvention for his reelection campaign next year is well underway.

Rep. Justin Amash, the guy who Speaker Boehner kicked off the Budget Committee for being a jerk, ran to Buzzfeed yesterday to unload on the GOP for trying to pin the sequester idea on President Obama. Then he took to Twitter to accuse "most ppl in DC" of playing "petty partisan battles" with no attempt at "legislating or persuading." Pot, kettle, Congressman.

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Poisoned Names

Some names are mostly just fads - their popularity quickly rises and just as quickly falls. But then there are other names that are steadily growing until something (or someone) drives their popularity into the ground i.e. poisons them. And in fact Hilary seems to become the most poisoned name ever.

"Hilary", though, was clearly different than these flash-in-the-pan names. The name was growing in popularity (albeit not monotonically) for years. So to remove all of the fad names from the list, I chose only the names that were in the top 1000 for over 20 years, and updated the graph (note that I changed the range on the y-axis).

I think it's pretty safe to say that, among the names that were once stable and then had a sudden drop, "Hilary" is clearly the most poisoned.

I can attest to this. Long before I ever heard of the Clintons I always thought Hilary was great girl's name that was uncommon but nice-sounding. Then 1992 happened and I scratched it off my list - permanently. Maybe in 100 years or so it'll get another shot.

Also I predict a glut of strippers named Ashanti in about ten years.

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I don't know this for a fact but if I had to guess, MKH is writing this with controlled anger.

And I think it's laudable she maintains control.

I didn't write much because I'm too appalled.

Everyone shows you who they are. You just have to give them room to talk.

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Kind of funny, via @comradearthur.

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via @benk84's excellent news-fest, NBC continues to be America's lowest rated network.

NBC, after being heartened by some long-sought success this past fall, has fallen into a deep midwinter freeze.

The network has badly stumbled recently, hitting its three lowest viewership levels for a traditional television season in the past four weeks, the Nielsen ratings company said. The only exception came the week NBC televised the Pro Bowl.

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Yet the depth of NBC's recent troubles has to be disheartening.

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Thirty-three other broadcast programs had bigger audiences than NBC's most-watched show last week, "Dateline NBC."

Dateline NBC is your most-watched show? Dude.

I keep saying: Let's hang this admiral, to encourage the others.

I have to make one exception: Daniel Knauff (I think that's his name) is doing a Dracula series for NBC, filmed in London (I think) with Jonathan Rhys Myers*. He's actually a conservative and has said so on-line and has caught grief for it.

So I'd break embargo for that.

But otherwise.... I don't know why Limbaugh and Levin don't start echoing this idea.

A complete (except for Dracula) embargo of the network.

A shot across the bow for all others.

Let them know what can happen when you push us too far.

* Not Jonathan Rhys Davies like I wrote, who was Gimli and Sallah and would not make for a very good Dracula.

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