Posted on August 21st, 2006 by Gavin M.
…Or, ‘George Allen Specials Edition.’
The Specials – ‘Monkey Man’ (+2)
They Might Be Giants – ‘Racist Friend’
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Brad
Take it away, Mr. Hinderaker:
“Moment of Truth”
Ralph Peters is provocative as always, as he assesses the future of the Middle East in the wake of Israel’s defeat in Lebanon. The future, as Peters sees it, is troubled but ultimately hopeful. Here are a few excerpts, but you really should read it all:
Take a deep breath, folks. This isn’t gonna be pretty:
Within the forces of terror, the balance of power has shifted. Sunni fanatics, such as al Qaeda’s supporters, have suffered severe losses in Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world. Still capable of doing serious damage, they’re nonetheless being eclipsed in importance by state-backed Shia terrorists, with Hezbollah in the lead and Iran providing arms, money, training and strategic depth.
Say, didn’t we help empower a bunch of fundamentalist Shiite militias in Iraq?
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Gavin M.
Doin’ what moonbats do, yo.
Seriously though, isn’t 7.2 a little high for our fave shrieking harpy?
Update: It’s Derby Day! Constantly updated results (and links to rating pages) via this special gizmo:
L-R: Pam, Marie, Jackie Maisley Passy Mackie
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Travis G.
Shorter Kathleen Parker: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s not a duck. It’s just not.
Gavin adds:
Above: Parker at the Strom Thurmond Institute, 10/24/05.
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by HTML Mencken
Wolcott sez:
It would be one thing if a president’s legacy were to make peace with a former foe, or restore environmental health to a ravaged region, but Bush’s legacy is militarized by his belief in divine mission, which could get a lot of innocent people killed, a higher slaughter rate than the ongoing fiasco in Iraq. If Seymour Hersh’s sources are creditable (and I think we can all agree on Hersh’s track record ), Bush has made up his one-track mind for the rest of us that he will not leave office without neutralizing the threat of Iran.
It’s a terrifying probability. Consider that Bush knows he is politically toast; moreover, he knows that his Middle East/War on Terra policies will be, at the least, radically reorganized on Realist grounds after 2008 (and he will have in all likelihood after this fall a Congress with a little more backbone than he is accustomed to). In effect, then, Bush’s attitude to Iran can be seen as neoconservatives’ last grand stab; their window of opportunity is fast closing and they know it.
Bush cares as little for public opinion as he cares for book-learnin’. He and Tha Lord have an understanding, and anyway (so he might say with the True Believer’s false humility which is so very like egomania) aren’t Tha Lord’s servants ‘posed to be unpopular in this wicked old world? Sadly, yes! Why, just look at the polls! So Bush (Jesus Jr. to Jesus’ own God Jr.) must do His work while there’s still time, before Satan himself (yes, the Democratic Party) regains control of God’s own earthly instrument, the great Youessofaye. Meanwhile the Cheneys, Kristols, Podhoretzes — a clever if deeply cynical lot — say embarassed amens for show because it means getting on with the Imperial Program, Bomb Iran.
Bombing Iran is the last great act they can take, the last great mess they can make. The temptation, I’m sure, is irresistable. And what have they to lose? Jesus Jr is sure he’ll see a better place in the afterlife because of it, though who knows if he will be attended by any virgins there, meanwhile the neocons are sure History (which they still think of in a Marxist way) will be kind to them but even if it’s not, well there’s always a corporate teat to be sucked at AEI, where are they are sure to spend the rest of their days writing autohagiographies. Regardless, a strike on Iran insures for Bush and his enablers a special place in the Heavens of their respective ideologies. Attention, Evil: with their last political breath, the Bushies stab at thee!
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Gavin M.
Posted on August 19th, 2006 by Brad
Oh boy. Michelle Malkin’s latest guest blogger is, to put it gently, completely untalented and sucky. Let’s take a look:
Sankchuberrymuch
By Val Prieto
Getting an email from Michelle is great because you know you’re in for some pretty major blogging action…
Raise your hand if you think this guy has the stickiest keyboard on the planet.
– she’s usually at the forefront of things and, of course, an exceptional writer – but when you get an email from her asking if you’d like to guest blog while she’s away, well, you kinda get all excited and stressed at the same time.
OK, it’s not even open to debate anymore- this dude definitely has the stickiest keyboard on the planet.
Excited and stressed that is, after you check the properties of said email to make sure it isnt someone pulling your leg or some moonbat doing what moonbats do.
Which presumably involves pulling on things that make Val get all excited and stressed at the same time.
Gavin adds: Moonbats do not prank hapless wingtards! (Lies, calumny!)
Posted on August 19th, 2006 by Gavin M.
About five million blogs including TBogg and World O’ Crap have already driven bulldozers over Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the startlingly mediocre libertarian chick with too many names who posted this paen to her own wonderfulness. But if we can just elbow in here for a moment…
I am a very high-quality woman. I know that sounds arrogant, but let’s consider the facts:
[…]
I’m attractive (my new picture has been rated more attractive than 86% of the women on Hot or Not — and the women who upload their pictures are a self-selected sample that is probably already biased towards being more attractive than the general female population)
Fig.1: Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey:
Fig.2: Everyone’s best girl, Marie Jon’:
Jackie-Mackie-Po-Passey has a lot of catching up to do. We suggest a That Girl flip-do and a hubba-hubba sweater.
Posted on August 19th, 2006 by Gavin M.
The life of an intercontinental shrieking harpy might seem like a leisured, breezy saunter through rose-perfumed gardens, but Ramallah Pamela proves that it isn’t always so!
Can you imagine that she was inconvenienced at the airport by anti-terror procedures?
Not shown: The harrowing, drunken conclusion of the flight, with four concussed flight attendants, a Finneran atop the beverage cart, and a panicked John ‘Disco Biscuits’ Bolton bullying the waiting Air Marshals away from the arrival gate.
Posted on August 18th, 2006 by Gavin M.
Have they changed it yet? …Nope, not yet.
Tee hee.
Update: How low can personal grooming standars go?
Above: Marvin Olasky
[Hanx! Marita]