Sadly, No!

David Frum answers with a loud “It would be irresponsible not to!:”

Speaking of media bias [WTF?!? -S,N!,] here’s a question you won’t hear [sic] in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?

We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight ?possibly as much as 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental
dysfunction. What does this sound like?

Sounds like you’re an even bigger dickhead than we thought. At least Frum now has distinguished company in commenting on this topic:

Later in the day, comedians not noted for right-wing leanings held a full-out roast for Arafat on the Mishak Machur comedy program on Israel Channel Two television.

“It’s not cancer that he has – it’s AIDS,” said one, to the delighted applause and laughter of a studio audience. “You can’t screw five million people for so long and wind up with just cancer – it’s AIDS.”

We’d like to go on the record and ask whether David Frum has AIDS. There’s certainly been plenty of evidence of intermittent mental dysfunction.

Ever since we provided a shorter version of an Indiana Star editorial, we’ve been added to the editor’s mailing list and have been receiving new editorials by email. (No, we’re not kidding.) Why? Who knows. We sure as hell had no real desire to see another editorial from that paper, but obviously someone thought we should. And so it was that we received a link to today’s hard hitting (as they all are) editorial:

Our position is: The president must work to unite a nation divided by a heated and prolonged campaign.

Whoa there, editor RiShawn Biddle! Be very careful with the controversial opinions — you might just find the FBI looking into your library related program activities. The paper’s position is especially idiotic given that its endorsement (!) of Bush contained the following:

The president adamantly refuses to listen to those who question him. He has insulated himself from voices he doesn’t want to hear and suggests that those who question his Iraq policies are playing into the hands of the enemy.

Meanwhile, the president, [has] presided over an economic policy that is producing huge budget deficits, and expanded Medicare into one of the more expensive social programs ever known. He has mocked his critics, and in the process has proved to be a divider rather than a unifier, feeding the growing national tendency for Americans to work against, rather than with, each other in developing solutions to common problems.

We don’t have time to look through its archives, but we suspect that the IndyStar’s post OJ Simpson verdict editorial was likely something along the lines of:

In his first term, Bush did the exact opposite of what the IndyStar wants him to do, behavior that was rewarded with the newspaper’s endorsement. Yet now they expect him to do right by America, instead of continuing to fuck her in the ass. Why do we think that the answer to the newspaper’s suggestion will be: Sadly, No!?

We for one (well, two I guess) can’t wait for the paper’s Christmas editorial:

That surely would rival with the paper’s September 12 editorial:

They sure don’t mess around at the IndyStar.

Note: Corrected our improper capitalization of RiShawn.

According to the CBC:

As a bonus, the tin was non-toxic. By the second century AD, Romans were beginning to recognize the health risks of lead. [Emphasis added.]

Meanwhile, several hundred years later:

The Bush administration’s proposed 2005 budget slashes federal funding to prevent lead poisoning by $35 million. The national lead prevention program is aimed at providing expert evaluations and repairs for homes in an effort to prevent young children from being exposed to lead-tainted paint particles, dust or soil. […] The whopping 20 percent funding reduction called for by President Bush could leave some 40,000 homes contaminated with lead next year.

So when can we expect Biggus Dickus to start working at the EPA?

CNN reports:

They [Americans] also expect Bush to put aside partisan agendas and lead in a bipartisan way, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

Has anything happened in the last four years that would make this expectation even remotely reasonable?

Americans by and large appear to be happy with the results of Tuesday’s elections[.]

Call us bitter bitches, but when the candidate we vote for loses, we’re not happy with the results.

(As always, thanks to Blair for the link.)

Presumably this means that those soldiers hate America and the President:

WASHINGTON ? In the weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Iraqi looters loaded powerful explosives into pickup trucks and drove the material away from the Al Qaqaa ammunition site, according to a group of U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen who said they witnessed the looting.

The soldiers said about a dozen U.S. troops guarding the sprawling facility could not prevent the theft because they were outnumbered by looters. Soldiers with one unit ? the 317th Support Center based in Wiesbaden, Germany ? said they sent a message to commanders in Baghdad requesting help to secure the site but received no reply. […]

“We were running from one side of the compound to the other side, trying to kick people out,” said one senior noncommissioned officer who was at the site in late April 2003.

“On our last day there, there were at least 100 vehicles waiting at the site for us to leave” so looters could come in and take munitions. [Emphasis added.]

To think we were totally convinced this was just a liberal media spun story!

Up yours, Mister President.

Though we sure wish we had:

Kerry concedes election

Fuck.

FoxNews explains the electoral college:

Although Iowa, Nevada and Mexico had not yet made their results officials, Card said the GOP camp was counting those states in its column.

From the same article:

“President Bush decided to give Senator Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election.”

Announcing victory is giving the respect of more time? Just like there’s no difference between weapons and weapons programs?

When even Fucking Fox News won’t call a state for Bush, we think you should wait (even if only a day) before calling yourself the winner.

This is starting to stink like the President’s classic: But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.

Well, a few more perhaps. We’ll go with this:

FMITA.