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Archive for August 9th, 2007

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

The Swiftboat Potemkin

Netrootsy blogs wonder: If Dan Moldea is correct . . .
Now Moldea is knee-deep in sexual allegations, and with Clinton’s wife seeking the presidency, Moldea is again warning darkly of conspiracies.
“I have it on very, very good authority that major opposition research has already been conducted on Bill Clinton, and it’s going to be a [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

If he was a Muslim he’d be in Gitmo right now

By Thoreau
But Stu Bykofsky is presumably caucasian, so he’s in the clear when he says that America needs another 9/11.  Supposedly this would “unify” us, or something.
Not only does he flunk his morality test, he also flunks the IQ test:
Bush I did everything right, Bush II did everything wrong – but he did it with [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Yet Another Final UO Con Reminder!

Tomorrow Night! Rock Bottom Brewery 6:30PM on! Like Thoreau says! I’ll be there! He’ll be there! Mona won’t be there, alas, but in her honor I promise to make fun of Jeff Goldstein one time. Please come! If you know one of us from other DC bloggie gatherings, like the Reason happy hours, we’d love [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Im in ur internetz makin ur memez

By Thoreau
The phrase “East Germany Restoration Act” is catching on!
But, strangely enough, people think it comes from a comment I made at the Poor Man.
Well, I like their blog, so I won’t complain.

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

No nukes from me, but had better be from thee

By Mona
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Hillary waxing in faux outrage at Obama because he declared that nuking Pakistan to get at AQ is not an option:

“I don’t believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.”

Hillary in April of ‘06 about whether we should nuke Iran:

“I [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Final Reminder: UO Con TOMORROW!!!

(Reposting this)
By Thoreau
Since I am leaving the DC area (aka Mordor) to go off to the West, I’d like to get together in person with all DC area UO readers, writers, commenters, lurkers, general friends of the site, and enthusiastic enemies of the site (hey, if you hate it that much you must be reading [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

The Taliban have good news for the critics, the cynics, and all my heroes at the methadone clinic

By Thoreau
According to a press release from the Drug Policy Alliance, Afghan opium production has shot up (hah!) 15%. Afghans now supply 95% of the opium on the global market.
You know, I could think of a blindingly obvious way to bankrupt the Taliban and the Afghan warlords.

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Events spin out of control on the Metro

By Thoreau
It’s amazing how things can quickly escalate.  A few hours ago, while walking up the escalator in sandals, I scraped the bottom of my big toe on the edge of a step.  Hey, it happens.  It was a combination of bad luck and bad judgement on my part.  I get to the top of [...]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

A Bucket of Warm, EVANGELICAL Spit

Jeremy Lott says Huckabee is running for veep:
Huckabee has positioned himself as the candidate who can help a more liberal nominee with the party’s conservative base or a Mormon nominee with evangelicals. He’s selling himself as a fence mender and a bridge builder, not the Party’s standard-bearer.
Another marker laid!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Women’s Problems

Not me so much, supposedly . . .

You Are 96% Feminist

You are a total feminist. This doesn’t mean you’re a man hater (in fact, you may be a man).You just think that men and women should be treated equally. It’s a simple idea but somehow complicated for the world to put into action.

Are You a [...]