Sadly, No!

Brought to you by the kind of week at the office where you are expecting to get fired.

Thomas Sowell’s Political corruption: Part II

Think I can write an entire column about political corruption without mentioning Republicans? You got that right! Also, the problem with politics today is that there just isn’t enough money involved.

Linda Chavez’s Shut up and act

Damn you Will & Grace for fooling us into thinking that homosexuality isn’t threatening!

No, really:

Shows like “Will & Grace” have made homosexuality appear non-threatening, indeed endearing, for example

Walter E. Williams’ In government we trust

The federal government is an unreliable slut. But that has nothing to do with the people running it.

This Pastor Swank column left my genitals feeling borderline suicidal:

MARITAL SEX IS MORE FUN
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
MichNews.com
Jan 25, 2006

Sex cupped inside marriage vows is more fun. That’s what the wives told English surveyors.

So there!

“Yeah, so there! I just put images of me and Mrs. Swank doin’ the nasty in your heads! Nyah, nyah, nyah, bitcheZ!”

A year old, but just as funny:

THE PRESIDENT: Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There’s a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those — changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be — or closer delivered to what has been promised.

Does that make any sense to you? It’s kind of muddled. Look, there’s a series of things that cause the — like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate — the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those — if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.

Thanks to Alan for the link.

Jonah Goldberg’s gonna have to work extra-hard this year to win his second consecutive Chickenhawk Award, ’cause it looks like Rick Santorum is gonna be very, very tough to beat (via Atrios):

Santorum: “And yet we have brave men and women who are willing to step forward because they know what’s at stake. They’re willing to sacrifice their lives for this great country. What I’m asking all of you tonight is not to put on a uniform. Put on a bumper sticker. Is it that much to ask? Is it that much to ask to step up and serve your country?”

Video here.

Another one is the Patriot Act’s proposal to create a new police force under DHS, empowered to arrest people who are vaguely doing things that the Administration doesn’t like, according to vaporous criteria. But here’s a funny one. The Administration actually shot down a proposal to loosen the FISA regs:

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[Update: Bonus holy-crap. What could they possibly be up to? Asked the tortoise.]

You know, we need to stop slacking if we’re going to make a good showing in the Koufax Awards this year. (Nominated: Best Blog With Mutant Cat Minions, Best Intermittently Good Blog With Frequent Mediocre Stretches.)

We’ll lose the latter to The Poor Man, but we could totally win the first one.

And that’s why… Um, ah, teeth. Football. And it’s time for Tuesday Random One!

Meow, meow! Bad cats love The Futureheads!

[Shh! Got something coming up.]

We’re a few days late, but Michael Ledeen always delivers. The Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2006:

Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst sentenced on Friday to 12 years and seven months in prison for passing classified information to Israeli diplomats and staffers in the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, will testify against those former employees when their trial begins in late April.

Michael Ledeen, August 31, 2004:

Nobody’s been arrested, and some of the latest stories even quote the “sources” as saying that the Pentagon target — my pal Larry Franklin — may well be exonerated. That’s quite a turnaround in a couple of days, isn’t it? …

ML: So what do you think an AIPAC guy would do if somebody walked up to him in a restaurant and said “Here, I’ve got some interesting documents for you about American policy debates on Iran.”

JJA [The late James Jesus Angleton -S,N!]: The AIPAC guy would run away as fast as he could. Are you kidding?

Are we kidding? Sadly, No! K-Lo, want to add something?

LARRY FRANKLIN [KJL]
did meet with Israelis, above board, says Israel.

Last word to Michael:

A scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a friend of Franklin, Michael Ledeen, said, “Larry Franklin is a little person, he is not a political player. Think before you destroy a little person. When the FBI has a case against someone, they go to a grand jury, they indict him and arrest and put him away, they don’t go to Leslie Stahl [of CBS].” (New York Sun, 30 Aug 04)

A little person? Is Ledeen a folk Marxist?

Whoa. This is disturbing.

I actually agree with Michelle Malkin that this column by Joel Stein is really, really idiotic.

Additionally, I agree with Michelle that it was wrong of these guys to name her the 49th Most Loathesome Person in America. She should have at least cracked the top 10.

A blurb for the Conservative Book Club at WorldNetDaily reads:

SPECIAL OFFER
Get Coulter, Malkin, more for just $1 each

Sorry, boys, that’s still too much money to pay for those two.

Way, way too much.

It must be tough being Michelle Malkin sometimes. Her entire livelihood depends on her success at ginning up faux-populist outrage among her sub-imbecile readers, most of whom aren’t even able to shower without wearing specially-designed safety helmets. As if this weren’t bad enough, her work as a shrill partisan harpy has become even more difficult recently, as it’s tougher to blame Democrats for everything when the GOP controls all three branches of the federal government. Because of this, the “controversies” she uses to generate anger among the wingnut masses keep getting more and more obscure, and she’s been reduced to attacking such super-powerful figures as Christina Ricci, Harry Belafonte and Dr. Kamau Kambon. (Her finest moment, of course, came when she tried scoring points on a political adversary by gleefully posting her divorce papers on-line.)

But even with all that in mind, Michelle must really be desperate for material this week, as she’s now complaining about (I’m not making this up) conservative books getting negative customer reviews at Amazon.com:

Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s reviews deserves a lot more attention than it’s getting. Kathryn Lopez shed light last week on the organized campaign against Kate O’Beirne’s book (published by Penguin/Sentinel). […]

Bottom line: The Amazon.com review section has become a joke and a cesspool, and if the company cares about its credibility with a large segment of its book-buying audience, it better fix the problem.

Oh. My. God.

Michelle, I don’t mean this to be insulting, but… what the hell is wrong with you, woman? You’re getting upset because a bunch of people have anonymously posted nasty things about conservative books on the goddamn Internet? Do you really think anyone is going to go on-line and say, “Gee, I was really looking forward to buying the latest Fred Barnes book, but now I’ve decided against it because a bunch of people whom I’ve never met wrote a series of poorly-spelled, typo-filled reviews on Amazon.com. One chap, who calls himself PPunko69, wrote a particularly scathing critique, astutely noting that Barnes was a ‘stink-face wanker COBAG!! LOL!!1!'” I mean, what the hell?
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