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Way, way off topic of politics and such.

When I click a box, I'm offered many choices and most aren't correct because of mistyped entries or whatever.

Does anyone know how to eliminate the errant entries. Its driving me crazy.

Thank you in advance.

Ex- convicts and addicts may get DoD clearance

Isn't this just special?

At the Pentagon’s request, Senate defense authorizers tucked deep within a defense bill a repeal of the department’s restriction on granting security clearances to ex-convicts, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.

The repeal provision now is creating discord between the Senate Armed Services and the Intelligence committees. In its markup of the 2008 defense authorization bill, the Intelligence panel voted to delete the Armed Services provision.

The fate of the provision could become a flashpoint this week as the Senate takes up the bill.

The Senate Armed Services panel seeks to repeal a seven-year-old law that established mandatory standards disqualifying certain people from receiving security clearances.

Under the law, members of the military services, employees of the Department of Defense or contractors working for the Pentagon cannot receive a security clearance if they were convicted of a crime in any U.S. court and went to prison for at least one year; if they are unlawful users of illegal substances; if they are considered mentally incompetent or if they were dishonorably discharged or dismissed from the armed forces.

The ramifications of Bush's fucking decisions are paramount. He's turned the US into a land without "proper" laws. I say "proper" laws because he is consistently undermining Congress and the Judicial branches of law.

Who has a clue where this will lead?

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Michelle Malkin, anchor baby

This is a re-post so peeps can find it easier.

Michelle Malkin, anchor baby.

This is one of the most read posts I've ever made.

To be honest, I have no idea if that's a Photoshopped® picture or not. My guess is it isn't. At her age in 1992, its conceivable she did pose for such pictures and the scars on the body in the picture are consistent with Filipino people.

The wonder of the internets tubes

Within seconds of my last post came a hit from a Google search for "Official" Pamela Martin & Associates Telephone Records.

Its alive! Perhaps we should be afraid?

"Official" Pamela Martin & Associates Telephone Records

Hey, is the guy on the right reaching for her ass?

Of course Pamela (deborah?) Jeane Palfrey (Martin?) is the alleged DC madam. The name is confusing because people in such occupations often use aliases. But this is purported to be the "DC madam's" customers' phone list.

Use the list to check out your Congress critters. That is, if you are into titillation/proscription for activity that matters no more than how many weeds are on your property. I support most prostitution, well not literally, but figuratively. I support any "victim less" crime. Forced and child prostitution is another matter entirely.

OK, some people are anal about weeds, but I'm discounting those silly lamebrains.

I've included the picture of the alleged madam for those of you who have never seen a "real madam".

Your education continues thanks to SPIIDERWEB™. You are very welcome.

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Senator's Number on 'Madam' Phone List

HUGE surprise. The first customer identified is a Republican!

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) apologized last night after his telephone number appeared in the phone records of the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," making him the first member of Congress to become ensnared in the high-profile case.

I have no doubt Dems will be identified too, but expect a high Republican bias.

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Postal employee rampages

Are they getting better stress management classes or is the fad just over?

Tsk, tsk, tsk

Were I not guilty of such mistakes, I wouldn't post these and I won't identify whose posts these are:

How many tours is enough for a reservist...? It should read, "How many tours are enough for a reservist...?".

...the odds of him winning... I usually get this right. It should read, "...the odds of his winning...".

A majority of 54% said Yes... I believe it should read, "A majority – 54% said Yes...". Fifty four percent is the majority of 100%.

So you can go back and read what I've wrote... Ah! Two choices here. Either, "...read what I wrote..." Or, "...read what I've written...".

Oh yeah, there is also the possessive case with the missing apostrophe and I'm very guilty of doing that.

BTW, please don't come back at me about my punctuation. Its horrid I know and I'm too lazy to look up the rule each time I have to use "comma","double quotation marks"/"single quotation marks", "colon", "dot dot dot question mark", etc. I won't even try to use the semicolon except for HTML.

Oh yeah, I often split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions or propositions and mix verb tenses in one sentence. That's how I speak and I write like I talk.

Possibly more to follow in a later post.

Just replace yourself, childwise

Been meaning to post about this for a while, but was too lazy.

In an effort to stem the tide of population growth its often suggested people only replace themselves.

Let's do the math.

This year there are two people in the world. A man and a woman.

They have two children or "replacements".

These children marry and have two "replacement" children for them and their spouse.

See the problem here? If the first two people are still alive, there are now 8 people in the population where there were initially only 2.

Barring accidents and other non-natural deaths, and considering multiple births, the population grows and it grows a lot.

The only way to keep the world's population under control is for a couple to have only 1 child.

Surprisingly, I had to quit looking for a "suitable" picture for this post. It had to be 3 generations which totaled 8 people and there were none I could find.

I did post a picture of a couple with only one child. That might already have changed or be in the process of changing, of course.

Whoa there big boy

Maybe its just me, it often is, but where in the fucking world is such a sign necessary?

(via Jonco who has more)

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Chalabi's back

The beast who will not die.

Some people have unbelievable political lives or, at least, one hell of a lot of them.

Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, calling him the "nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician." For many Americans, that may be hard to stomach, as the guy has been roundly criticized for peddling false WMD information to eager listeners at the Pentagon

Now as I see it, that second sentence puts Chalabi as Republican politician and not a democratic one.

Yes, I did type what I wanted to using lowercase "d" for democratic.

(via Christopher)

Bush is probably right about this

Two terms keep coming up vis-a-vis Iraq policy. Both have been around a long while, but come up much more often now.

1. Gradual Withdrawal

2. Staged Pullback

Aren't both of those actions likely to result in pregnancy? Just asking.

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Ouch!

Whoever designed this slide really hates children.

Quote of the day

This has to be one of Jerome Doolittle's absolute best lines. Sometimes the guy is fucking awesome. This is one of those times.

...the Washington Post has been considered a liberal paper by those who don't read it.

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Shame on us

Christopher is right.

I'll admit I just missed this. No willful omission involved. I just fucked up and don't read Talking Points Memo because I'm lazy and it's often boring.
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Great name

Apache Junction, Arizona

OK, my outrage doesn't subside

After 200+ years we've come to this? Where a petulant child rules you?

Wake up you fucking morons, you are being controlled by an idiot and you take it day in an day out.

Ya gonna accept an invasion of Iran? Yes you will.

I'm fine

After that horrid post before, I'm doing well. I took my meds and am very calm. Don't worry.

Hahaha. Like I think you really would worry about me.

We who post on the internets tubes hold a much higher opinion of ourselves than we deserve. But we have your attention. Lol.

HATE

I can't imagine hating another human more than I hate George W Bush.

Jesus fucking Christ he is such a fucking asshole.

Any American who voted for this fucker should be ashamed for the rest of their lives.

Bush defends his actions in Iraq

From fucking Virginia and not where Americans are dying.

H/t CNN

Bush is no fucking Solomon

I've read lefties and righties refer to Bush as Solomon. He is no more wise than your average paper cup. Deal with it.

Ed Morrissey, who was not very happy with President's immigration bill and wanted Congress "to find a solution that respects the rule of law," compared the President to Solomon. "In opting for commutation, Bush has attempted a Solomonic decision to split the baby," Morrissey wrote. "Unfortunately, like Solomon, Bush will probably find neither side satisfied." Although I agree with Morrissey that Bush is as wise as Solomon, I'm not sure he is interpreting the biblical story correctly. As I recall one of two women who claimed the baby was perfectly happy to settle for half a baby and it was only the real mother that objected. To tell you the truth I never understood why the other woman thought having half a baby was a pretty good deal, but I guess times were different back then. Morrissey thinks that half a baby is all the President could give Libby for now.

There is absolutely nothing wise about Bush. He's an idiot we have to endure for a few more months.

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And such is ignored?

How fucking quaint is this? The Brits were warned about attacks and...listen to the crickets...

"Those who cure you are going to kill you."

That, a British priest said Wednesday, was the cryptic warning made to him in Jordan by a purported al-Qaida chief months before the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow that have been linked to a group of foreign Muslims working as doctors in Britain.

British authorities have said the attacks bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaida operation, but security officials say investigators are still trying to determine whether there was any direct link between the alleged plotters and an outside mastermind.

Canon Andrew White, a senior Anglican priest who works in Baghdad, said he met the man privately with a translator and sheik after holding talks with Sunni Muslim tribal and religious leaders April 18 in the Jordanian capital, Amman. He meets regularly with extremists in an attempt to calm Iraq's sectarian violence.

He said religious leaders told him the man was an al-Qaida leader who traveled from Syria to the meeting. The man, an educated Iraqi in his 40s and dressed in Western clothes, warned of attacks on Britain and the United States, White said.

"It was like meeting the devil," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Baghdad. "He talked of destroying Britain and the United States and then said, 'Those who cure you are going to kill you.'"

OK, let me get this straight. A cleric was warned the UK would be attacked and no one did anything. And Bush was warned of an attack and did nothing.

Is there a fucking pattern here? You don't have to don your tinfoil hat to realize somethings very fishy about all this.

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Alan Johnston Goes Free!

Sometimes there is good in the world.

Thanks to negotiations between Hamas and his kidnappers, Johnston wasn’t killed in a cowboy raid. Good to Hamas for that wise tack. While there are many concerns about Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, there is no denying the security situation seems to be improving now that Fatah and Hamas aren’t shooting at each other. I hear the clans in Gaza, who had run the place for a while and one of which was responsible for Johnston’s kidnapping, are running scared now that Hamas is in charge. That may be a good thing.

We should be happy.

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Beyond kewl

And frightening, disgusting or sad at the same time. We report, you decide.

From Jonco who is my gawd.

I am such a fucking thief

Please forgive me.

(stolen from Big Shot Bob in Texas)

Must read IMHO

This is my absolute last post about Libby's commuted sentence.

OK, I may be lying, but I think its my last post. I don't know when I'm lying. I'm psychotic.

Less than a month after leaving the presidency and amid nationwide anger over his last minute pardons, Bill Clinton tried to excuse, in a New York Times op ed article, his pardon of Clinton donor Marc Rich and his partner by claiming, among other things, three "distinguished Republican attorneys" had "reviewed and advocated" the pardons.

One of the three was the then little known I. Lewis Libby, who, Clinton wrote, to emphasize his legitimacy, was the new vice president's chief of staff.

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The Upside of Flaming Cars: Politicians and the Press Exploit the British Terror Attacks

The Brits took these attacks in stride. But the US media ran with the fear factor.

In the wake of the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, tens of thousands of Brits donned their stiff upper lips on Sunday and took in a concert at Wembley stadium in honor of Princess Diana.

In Washington, opportunistic politicians donned their curled lips and went on the Sunday shows to use the attacks as an excuse to allow the president a freer hand to spy on the American people.

Have I said, "fuck the press" lately? If not I'm overdue.

Come on. Two car bombs were non-issues and the one in Glasgow was so pathetic as to be a laughing matter. The car didn't even enter the fucking building.

Are terrorists a problem? Ya bet your sweet ass they are, but you have a better chance of dying on your commute to work in a traffic accident than being blown into tiny pieces by a terrorist. Face the fucking reality of it all.

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BTC News

Just added BTC News to my RSS reader. You should too.

Jesus H Christ looking for donuts, but I don't have time to read my other RSS feeds and I add another. Am I masochistic?

In which I lose my cool while debunking right wing Libby myths at the White House press briefing

Need a touch of reality? We gotcha covered.

Today at the White House press briefing, I got into a somewhat heated (on my part) dispute with John Gizzi, political editor of the right wing web magazine HumanEvents.com. It happened like this…

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