I Love Howard Dean--

For the record

I endorse Howard Dean for Chairman of the DNC.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi

Oh. Dear. God.

Did any of you have the stomach to watch Babs and Harry, and their response from a mortician and a real estate saleswoman with too many tucks?

I kept waiting for Mr. Rogers to get out of the grave and beat the living crap out of Senator Reid for the bad impression.

It's time to kill the SOTU response. It's lame. Just lame. And also it's very lame.

It's just bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. And also lame.

Harry makes Pelosi seem lifelike, and I don't mean in a Death Becomes Her Way. Except that maybe I do mean it in that way.

Pelosi looks like someone the mortician just finished putting the makeup on.

Just a little more collagen above the upper lip, and she'll look almost lifelike.

I didn't feel like I was watching the response; I felt like I was rubbernecking.

So---what did they have to say:

Iraq: DON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES! IT’S A FREAKING MESS!

Social Security: WITH OUR PLAN, EVERYONE GETS BENEFITS FOR EVER AND EVER, AND NOTHING EVER NEED CHANGE. WITH THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN? HELL ON EARTH AND ETERNAL DAMNATION (SECULARLY SPEAKING), WITH SENIORS FORCED TO SURVIVE ON FRUIT ROLL-UPS AND TANG CRYSTALS, WHILE SLEEPING IN SEWAGE.

The War on Terror: WE ARE NOT SAFE! BUSH HAS NOT MADE US SAFE! THE ONLY REASON WE HAVEN’T BEEN ATTACKED SINCE 911 IS THAT ISLAMISTS USE A DIFFERENT CALENDAR. TO THEM, IT’S ONLY BEEN, LIKE, 5 DAYS SINCE THEY ATTACKED! BUT WHEN THAT FIRST WEEK ENDS...LOOK OUT!

Healthcare: BUSHCO IS GOING TO KILL YOU! KILL YOU! BUT STICK WITH US AND CHRISTOPHER REEVE RISES FROM THE GRAVE AND WALKS!

Tidd and JD ALERT!!!!

And now a special treat for my two genius friends who got me the answers for my wondrous bemusement which turned out to be nothing more than a play on the power and magic of nine (9). While I should have been able to figure this out for myself—once again I am humbled by how much I don’t know.

And now for the treat:

How to really score with a girl:

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Come—on—that was really neat!!!!!!

CNN’s leader of “Stupid Human Tricks”

Eason Jordan - remember him? He's the CNN honcho who admitted after the fall of Saddam that CNN had kept a lid on reports of abuse by Saddamite thugs in order to keep CNN open in Baghdad. Well, this rather creepy gentleman of the press had another interesting thing to say at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Seems that Mr. Eason claimed that the United States military in Iraq has deliberately killed journalists - 12 of them, by Mr. Eason's count.

When pressed on this matter, Mr. Eason grew a bit evasive and came back with that he didn't have any proof of this or, indeed, anything which would even indicate a theoretical possibility of such a thing happening.

You can read the whole report here. And CNN wonders why its ratings have tanked.

As an aside, one of the people who challenged Eason was Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts. Its not too often that a conservative can have a nice thing to say about Mr. Frank, but he did a great job in this instance and all honor to him for speaking up.

The Democratic anti-American all-stars:

Today, in the House of Representatives, there was a cerebratorial, ceremonial vote on H. Res 60, which applauded the Iraqis for their first democratic election over the weekend. No strings, nothing fancy, just a friendly resolution saying congratulations. You would think that a vote like that would be unanimous, wouldn't you?

Can you believe that there were eleven Democrats that didn't vote for it, and there were eight that specifically voted against the resolution? Here's the eight.

Barbara Lee - California

"Baghdad" Jim McDermott - Washington

Cynthia McKinney - Georgia

Fortney "Pete" Stark - California

Maxine Waters - California

Diane Watson - California

Lynne Woolsey - California

Dennis Kucinich - The planet Raeleon

A Kennedy Then, A Kennedy Now

John F. Kennedy served as President for that famous 1,000 days; lest we forget what sort of America he stood for, here's a reminder:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more.

Ted Kennedy has served as a Senator for 15,423 rather less famous days, and here is how he will go down in history:

The nations in the Middle East are independent, except for Iraq, which began the 20th century under Ottoman occupation and is now beginning the 21st century under American occupation.

Truth is, there are only four real nations in the Middle East - Turkey, a mostly free nation for about 80 years; Israel - and Iraq and Afghanistan. The rest are, at best, psuedo-nations - groupings ruled over by thugs and thieves aping sovereignty. Ted Kennedy - the last, ragged remnant of an American political dynasty now entirely bereft of honor.

If you have not yet read “State of Fear”, Go get it!

State of Fear

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