Sadly, No!

Wah-wah-waaaaaaaaah:

George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Mr. Deutsch’s resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.

Hey, now that he has some free time on his hands, maybe he can track down Laci Peterson’s real killers!
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From Whosimajigger Powerline:

Tall and tan and young and love-ly, The girl from Ipa-nema goes wal-king…

Note: Again writted by Gavin, posted by Seb. Riddle this!

Leah from Corrente just put this up. It’s a remarkable post by Katherine at Obsidian Wings from last December, and I guess we’re republishing it as well, on the occasion of today’s hearings with Abu ‘Gonzo’ Gonzales.

Look. We have a President here who is making a claim of unlimited power, for the duration of a war that may never end. Oh, he says it’s limited by the country’s laws, but they’ve got a crack legal team that reliably interprets the laws to say that the President gets to do whatever he wants. It amounts to the same thing.

I am not exaggerating. I am really and truly not.

September 11 started the war. When will it end? Maybe never. Where is the battlefield? The entire world, including the United States. Who is an enemy combatant? Anyone the President says is an enemy combatant, including a U.S. citizen–no need for a charge, no need for a trial, no need for access to a lawyer. What if they’re found not to be an enemy combatant? We can keep them in prison anyway, and we don’t have to tell their families they’re alive or their lawyers that they were cleared. What can you do to an enemy combatant? Anything you want. Detain him forever, for the rest of his life, because this is a war like any other and we have always been able to detain POWs for the duration of the war.

But you don’t need to follow the Geneva Conventions, because this is a war like no other in our history. And oh yes–if the President decides that we need to torture a prisoner for the war effort, it’s unconstitutional for Congress to stop him. They took that position in an official memo, and they have not backed down from it. They have said it was “unnecessary” but they have never backed down from it.

They are not only entitled to do these things to people; they are entitled to do them in secret. When Congress asks for information about them, they can just ignore it. And they are entitled to actively deceive the public about all this.

That’s the power they claim. At what point are we going to take that claim seriously?

Well, it’s funny about that. Now there’s this. Newsweek, Feb 13th Issue: “Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?”

We’ll up Katherine’s ante a bit. It’s begun to seem, recently, like something more than a super-cosmic coincidence that the Bush Administration has been carefully setting up a system whose every particular matches the classic template of dictatorial powers and political repression (‘terror’ is such an ugly term). The only thing glaringly missing from such a scheme would be a large, Federally-organized enforcement arm directly under the authority of the president — and smarter people than us have already been scratching their heads at the Administration’s push against posse comitatus, and at the new Federal mystery-police thingo in the Patriot Act.
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Oh yeah!

Keith Banks, Loyd Staffing: What do you think some of your best attributes are, from a professional standpoint?

Ed Helms: I’m good at conducting satirical interviews, during which I make the interviewee, or patsy, feel tense, awkward, and often foolish.

Good times.

Way back (in the year 2003,) we wrote The Dickification of the Western Female (inspired by Kim Du Toit’s Pussification of the Western Male.) Little did we know at the time that our post would in turn inspire another reply, A. Meeba’s The Genitalization Of The Western Amoeba:

Now, little clones in grade school are suspended for playing protozoa and Blue-green algae, paramecia and plankton, and all the other familiar variations of “good guy vs. bad guy� that helped them learn, at an early cellular age, what it was like to have decent amoebae hunt you down, because you were an edible organism. Now, amoebae are taught that violence is bad – that when a parasite breaks into your membrane, or threatens you in the local water drop, that the proper way to deal with this is to “give it what it wants�, instead of taking a hunt-and-seek protein to the rascal or absorbing it dead where it swims.

We’ve been told that A. Meeba, or people associated with it, are now blogging at ParrotLine. And as luck would have it, they’re writing about Dean Esmay (in a friendly, non-nuts kicking sort of way.) They’ve even got a Keyboard Kommando Hierarchy. So you should go check them out — we’re still recovering from the move and stuff.

So, it was only 4 weeks ago we switched to a new host, and as many noticed things didn’t always work out the way they were supposed to. Fortunately, we have resolved the situation. Sadly, DNS propagation takes a day or two, so if you can’t reach us this weekend, fear not. We’ll be back soon, ready to kick Dean Esmay in the nuts.

Edit: If you can see this, all has gone well and the move is done. Go nuts.

Because we have enough of these for a year already, and it’s only getting worse.

Badfinger – ‘Day After Day,’ 1971 promotional film (2:55).

And after the mature, melancholy song for the older kids, it all goes tumbling quickly downhill (after the jump).
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Jerry Falwell’s latest column praises the Liberty Council’s abstinence-promoting “Day of Purity”:

As the so-called mainstream media continue to inundate our nation’s young people with messages and images glorifying sexual immorality, a new movement encouraging teens and adolescents to remain sexually pure is gathering steam.

There’s nothing steamier than sexual purity, after all.
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How lame, pathetic and desperate do you have to be to do something like this:

An incident involving three men accused of masturbating over a sleeping University of Connecticut student is sparking calls to change the state’s sexual assault laws.

The men, who are also students at the school, face disorderly conduct and public indecency charges. But they will not be charged with sexual assault because there was no physical contact with the female victim during the September incident, said Elizabeth Leaming, the assistant state’s attorney prosecuting the case.

And no, for your information, this isn’t what Seb, Gavin and I do for fun on weekends.

The Decemberists – ‘The Soldiering Life’: Homemade vid by PTE Leung, Canadian Land Force.

[more fresh hell under the jump]
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