But, this analysis only goes so far. What are rappers known for other than bling? Rhyming. That’s right. Who popularized that skill in the western world more than any other human being? It was Bill Shakespeare that’s who. He also wrote about teenage sex, incest, freaky forest nymphs, hung out in the theater district and wore an earing. Hello!!!

Obviously rappers have taken Shakespeare on as a role model which forced them to say things that Don Imus’ immature ears weren’t able to process in an adult way. Let’s burn all of Shakespeare’s works, kill Kenneth Branaugh (you know there is more Shakespeare left in him), and then we can be free of this terrible scourge that has blighted our culture.

Hey Hey Ho Ho
The Merchant of Venice has got to go!

Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002, when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.

Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.

In a recent Regent law school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in October 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking down a law against sodomy because it violated gay people’s civil rights.

“When one of the interviewers agreed and said that decision in Lawrence was ’maddening,’ I knew I correctly answered the question,” wrote the Regent graduate . The administration hired him for the Civil Rights Division’s housing section — the only employment offer he received after graduation, he said.

Now, you get a better idea of why things happened the way they have over the past six years. It is pretty damned sad that somebody can only get a job with the executive branch when all private firms reject you on the basis that you hate homosexuals. I think it’s time to look at the Civil Right’s Division. If this person is an indication, they probably have their own screw ups that haven’t been brought to the light of day.

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Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.

The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009, sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade tell ABC News.

The sources say the unexpected expansion is taking place at Iran’s nuclear enrichment plant outside the city of Natanz, in a hardened facility 70 feet underground.

I have learned the identities of ABC News’ sources. Like Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, I think outing is a fun idea. The sources on the centrifuges is some guy named Curveball. I have never heard of him before. Is he a baseball fan?

The source on the enriched uranium is somebody ABC calls “blossom of turd”. The information on the Iran enrichment plant in Natanz comes from a high ranking government official who wears a pace maker, shoots lawyers, and is considered by some to be “a Dick”, if you know what I mean. This detail about Natanz was confirmed by a source with the code name of Bahkmed Kalabi. ABC has this story down cold.

I am sorry ABC. This shit is not going to fly again. Give it a rest, that dog won’t hunt. Do you think we are stupid? Oh no, not this shit again.

There is a ticking clock too. It ends in 2009. Oh dear. That means coincidentally that the next president won’t have a chance to stop it. Only one brave leader will have to target this plant with nuclear tipped buster bunker bombs. Why did his favorite philosopher Jesus give him this cross to bear? George Bush needs to blow more shit up.

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Since that terrible day, other bad things have occured as well. Around 42,500 Americans die in traffic accidents annually. Most of these could be prevented. It has been 5 1/2 years since 9/11. Approximately 275,000 Americans therefore have been killed.

In response to 9/11 we passed the Patriot Act, the NSA began spying on our emails, our phone calls. We are going to end up spending over $1,000,000,000,000 in Iraq by the time we are done. Our country has tortured suspects to get information on terrorist attacks, we have suspended habeus corpus for our citizens. We have sent prisoners who haven’t been charged with crimes to places like Syria and Iran to get tortured as well. We take off our shoes before flights. We live with terror color codes. We do this in fear of terror. Terror has won.

We could have saved most of those 275,000 traffic victims by re-organizing our society and taking away our freedoms. We could legislate a computer chip in all cars that doesn’t allow one to speed. We could install a breathalizer in all cars so drunks can’t drive. We could do random drug and urine tests all the time to prevent impaired people from driving. There could be road tests for all drivers every year to make sure people are skilled enough to stay on the road.

We don’t do these things though, because we don’t want our freedom to drive stripped from us, and 116 deaths a day spread throughout 50 states is easy to ignore. That is 2 deaths per state per day roughly. But it adds up. Almost 100 times as many people have been killed in accidents since 9/11 than that very event.

I would rather be killed by terrorists than live in terror. Live free and die, or we can live in fear and die spiritual deaths afraid of our own shadow. What we have done in response to 9/11 is a much greater tragedy than the actual events that transpired that day.

Those who demand that we live in terror to defeat terror don’t seem to grasp the irony of their beliefs. Blow me up if you must radical terrorist, but damned if my government will blow up my constitutional rights in the name of saving them.

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Please explain something to me. What is this obsession that liberals have with seeing America destroyed?

Why are they so intent on humiliating their fellow citizens? And why don’t they have at least some modicum of pride about the greatest nation the world has ever produced?

I think it’s because secretly many of us are french. We enjoy our french fries and got resentful over the whole freedom fry switchover. I personally enjoy some cabernet, Jerry Lewis movies, and secretly hope that we are taken over by the UN.

It is clear from the way they recoil when someone refers to them as “anti-American” or “unpatriotic” that there is a piece of them (however insignificantly tiny) that does not wish to be classified as such.

It is true. That secret part of me that joined the military unlike the brave keyboard warriors of the right was hoping that my service wouldn’t get out. It shamed me to think that anybody would know that in a small place in my heart I loved this country.

To this day, I don’t have a yellow magnet or a W sticker on my car, but I know all the lyrics to the national anthem but don’t belt it out in public. I am coming out of the closet now, but it is very painful. Thank you Kevin McCullough for your sensitivity. Let’s hug.

In their own echo-chamber vanity Murtha, Pelosi and company believe themselves to be smarter than the commanders of the operations in the war on terror. And they believe that we will sit mesmerized, like sheep, while they single-handedly attempt to give the terrorists a date for victory - August 31, 2008.

But they didn’t just author defeat - they campaigned for it.

It’s true. It’s so true! The commanders were doing such a great job. Iraq was liberated, there were flowers being handed to Dick Cheney. Ken Adelman walked through a 500 foot long cake as he was greeted as the savior of the Iraqi people. In 2006, defeatocrats like myself said this goodwill to America from the grateful people of Iraq is embarassing. Let’s nip this in the bud and get out of there before we get too big headed from all the thunderous applause we are receiving. I voted for these people to end the war. My shame is overwhelming.

Only a day or two earlier the “let the terrorists win” bill looked like it was in deep trouble. Some of the more socially conservative blue-dog democrats argued that it would not play well to the average citizen to be authoring a bill, and to hold hostage the paychecks of the men and women in uniform over the issue of when we give victory to the other side.

It was such a catchy title too. The “let the terrorists win” bill was such a good concept. It had pizazz. But it was so terribly wrong. If we don’t stay in Iraq forever, that means the terrorists win. I used to think that letting terrorists dictate what we did would mean they won, but obviously it was an error in judgement.

So not only did the Democrats author a resolution that called for the terrorists to claim victory on August 31, 2008, not only did they twist arms of lower ranking members to get them on board, now they were willing to spend the money that you and I are sending them by way of our tax bill - to fund the effort to buy congressional members’ loyalty to the concept of the terrorists winning.

Am I the only one in America that thinks this is truly, dastardly, diabolically - sick?

No, no you aren’t. I vomited a little in my throat while reading your article. Does that make you feel any better?

We must be terrorized of terrorists and bogged down in a quagmire in order to defeat their ideology. Bless you Kevin. You have showed me the way. Your nurturing support has really opened my eyes.

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Thank God that we aren’t living under Edwards socialized medicine plan. She has a great chance for recovery.

He could be using this as a cynical ploy to get a sympathy vote later. He is a sleazy trial lawyer after all. I don’t put anything past them.

Perhaps I looked too early. Maybe the tone had changed.

Not that it makes any difference, but isn’t Mrs. Edwards a practicing DUmmy?

Leaving the graveness of her illness aside, we’re going to be treated to MONTHS of how wonderful John is for Elizabeth.

Sympathy for Mrs. Edwards is warranted, but The Silky Pony is such a sleazeball, cynicism is awfully hard to avoid.

Yes, and if all this is true, count on the press to offer Edwards up for sainthood. The media loves Edwards almost as much as they love Hillary’s Magic Negro. He’s pretty and he spouts all the right platitudes. If he “suspends” for now and then jumps back in later, for whatever reason, the press will slobber all over themselves to beatify him.

Media Matters also reports that Rush Limbaugh was being his usual obnoxious self when it came to this story.

On the March 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) intentionally “leak[ed]” false information — that Edwards would “suspend” his campaign because his wife’s cancer had recurred — to Politico reporter Ben Smith in order “to jump-start the campaign.

The Boston Globe’s story on the Free Republic reaction had just one quote.

A contributor to freerepublic.com , another right-leaning site, said: “I’m not an Edwards fan either. In fact, I’ve said some downright nasty things about him virtually every time I hear his name. Nevertheless, I shall pray for the health of his wife and for peace/comfort to be brought to the Edwards family.”

This is in stark contrast to the media’s coverage of the Cheney bomb scare. Some anonymous posters on Huffington Post said things to the effect that they wish the bomb got Cheney. Those comments were stripped. The media went into overdrive with Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post devoting a column to those foul mouthed liberals on the internet. It was 5 pages long, and with quotes lovingly supplied to him by Michelle Malkin. Glenn Greenwald, in Salon, noted how absurd the reaction was by Kurtz and others.

That is why every right-wing outlet from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Kurtz’s best friend, Michelle Malkin (and now Kurtz himself), have been pumping this story madly — not because anyone would ever try to suggest that these comments reflect negatively on liberals or the left, but merely because it is so very, very significant to discuss as prominently as possible the views of 200 stray, arbitrary, anonymous blog commenters (whose identity can never be determined even for authenticity purposes). Nobody — and certainly not Kurtz — is attempting in any way to suggest that these comments should be tied to anyone beyond the individual commenters. Not at all.

That is also why Kurtz’s own newspaper is touting this grave and important matter of the anonymous commenters on its front page.

So here you have a story of two potential dangers to a Republican and a Democrat. When the Republican story breaks, the media picks out random anonymous ugly comments, front pages it in the Washington Post and smears liberals with it. When a Democrat gets sick, the Boston Globe cherry picks quotes to show that conservatives are compassionate and caring.

Some liberal media we have here.

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Today, he suggests that Alberto Gonzales should resign, but not for reasons that rational people might suggest.

It’s not a question of probity, but of competence. Gonzales has allowed a scandal to be created where there was none. That is quite an achievement. He had a two-foot putt and he muffed it.

Oh, there was no actual scandal here at all. It was just management of PR that apparently is the problem. In a twisted way, this makes perfect GOP sense. The actual facts aren’t what matter, it is the way you make them appear that does, and Gonzales has failed in that regard, and for this reason must depart.

Why shouldn’t there be White House involvement? That is nothing to be defensive about. Does anyone imagine that Janet Reno fired all 93 U.S. attorneys in March 1993, giving them all of 10 days to clear out, without White House involvement?

The Bush administration fired eight.

What an asshole! Krauthammer is trying to mislead his very stupid readers into believing that only Clinton ever dismissed attorneys, and he fired 93 of them! Bush only fired 8. Of course all recent Presidents dismiss attorneys at the start of their term. Reagan did, Bush I did, Clinton did, and Commander Cuckoo Bananas did as well. The scandal is that the prosecutors were dismissed in the middle of their terms, some working cases against Republicans, and another refusing under pressure to indict a democrat to benefit a GOP incumbant’s re-election campaign.

You say tomato, I say Krauthammer is a douchebag.

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Conservatives expect the media to admit the moon is made out of green cheese, Clinton fathered Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, and that the ACLU is a plot by Satanists to bring along the new world order replete with black helicopters piloted by UN militia ready to take conservatives to re-education camps. These are not the nice internment camps that Michelle Malkin likes, but ones where you have to “read books”, and be tolerant of other people; torture in other words.

Today, conservative media critic Cliff Kincaid takes on that bastion of Marxism that we know as Fox News. Apparently Fox is going wildly socialist with their new hire. He is a famous supporter of Trotsky, Mao, and I believe Stalin too. Let’s let Cliff Kincaid of AIM tell you more about this horror that is hitting the studio where Sean Hannity works.

In another indication of its leftward drift, the Fox News Channel has hired liberal former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. as a political commentator and analyst. Ford lost his Tennessee Senate race to Republican Bob Corker last year.

Ford was the recipient of incredibly favorable coverage by Fox News during his Senate campaign. Fox News portrayed Ford as a moderate or even a conservative.

That is right people. Radical liberal Harold Ford is working for Fox News now. Emma Goldman once danced with him at a Playboy party if I recall correctly.

In reality, Harold Ford is a conservative democrat. He has been elected as chair of the DLC, which is a conservative pro business, corporately funded group that has been very supportive of the war in Iraq, as has Ford himself.

Here is radical Marxist Harold Ford cheering on the NJ supreme court for supporting gay civil unions. Can you believe that Fox News hired this guy?

“I do not support the decision today reached by the New Jersey Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. I oppose gay marriage, and have voted twice in Congress to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. This November there’s a referendum on the Tennessee ballot to ban same-sex marriage - I am voting for it.”

He didn’t suggest the gays should be stoned, and be forced to wear pink triangles in that statement. Pinko!

Harold Ford also has been wishy washy on protecting the fetus. Those snowflake babies run from terror every time they hear Harold Ford’s name. Harold Ford has a strong 30% rating from NARAL. Apparently he voted against making thinking a bad thing about a pregnant woman a capital offense, so they did give him some love.

He voted for banning late abortions, for banning traveling across state lines to perform an abortion, supports parental notification laws. He doesn’t mean it though. He wants to abort all the white babies, except the ones who look like models. I believe he wants to have sex with them.

Thank goodness we have Cliff Kincaid to point out Harold Ford’s radical agenda. Our media will be alerted to this news of Fox’s leftward tilt, and put Cliff Kinkaid on to balance it accordingly. Wait, I am serious about this point.

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Many of the officers I heard from explained to me that these laws are fairly rarely enforced but they are very useful for officers to use at their discretion to maintain unit cohesion. Morale is an animal spirit and doesn’t necessarily operate in neat ways, or so I’ve been told. I’d rather see adultery remain illegal under military law and have officers use their good judgment in enforcing the law than see adultery legalized and have officers lose an important tool.

What Jonah is saying here is that it is better for an officer to be able to bring up somebody on charges, potentially costing them rank, money, and their freedom on a random case by case basis depending on their mood. If an officer for example hates blacks, atheists, jews this is an excellent tool. He ignores everybody else who commits adultery, and one person who he doesn’t like does, he singles them out for punishment.

Unlike the 101st keyboarder, I actually did serve in the military. Adultery was rampant. It is true. It was rarely enforced. That is what makes the worst kind of laws. If there is something on the books that isn’t being prosecuted, it will be abused to target people for reasons other than the offense. Once the charge is brought and proved, the person’s life and career are kind of screwed for a while.

Jonah probably also believes in selective enforcement for perjury as well. If it’s about a hummer, you need to be executed (if your name starts with Bill Clinton), but not so much with leaking CIA agents names.

We still need recruits oh fruits of Lucianne’s loin. It’s just my luck that you would have a hard time scoring with any women and you couldn’t be singled out under this policy if you ever had the guts to match your mouth.

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