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The sordid tale of Michelle Malkin and her puppeteer husband Jesse - two voices, acting as one, wrapped up in a pretty package. Easy-to-digest racism for the masses.

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Monday, May 30, 2005

Comment Comedy

The Hedgehog Report » Review of 1776

Ryan pointed out the funniest comment I've seen in awhile...

A wingnut blogger posted a review of David McCullough's new book, 1776 which "focuses solely on the battles fought by George Washington during the year 1776 that many say eventually turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the [American's] favor."

Sensing an opportunity to bash liberals, the anti-war movement and the media, the wingnut closes his review with the following:

One thing that really came to me as I was reading it is how lucky we were not to have the same type of anti-American/anti-military media back then that we have today or there would have been no way in hell the Americans could have ever prevailed over the British. I can just imagine how today’s media would have covered all the setbacks George Washington faced before evetually winning that battle at Trenton and changing the entire course of the war. If today’s media was around back then, it would have never gotten that far….

A lively comment thread follows, including this gem, the funniest comment I have seen in awhile:

I was fascinated with the part of 1776 where Ben Franklin stood a Redcoat hooded (so that he couldn’t see)on a chair and hooked up a Leyden jar battery to the soldier’s testicles.

hehe!

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