Just When You Think Second Life Couldn’t Be Any Dumber

5:41 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | News | 8 Comments

Topic: 2008 Election

EXCLUSIVE: Hidden Message From Jessica Alba

5:30 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

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The crack team of audio and video technicians working for OliverWillis.com have uncovered a hidden message from Ms. Alba to Oliver Willis in the latest commercial for Fantastic Four 2. Reached for comment, Willis said “Well, now the world knows about our love. Please, keep this private and tell every single person you know.”

Topic: Humor

Middle East Summit

4:05 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | News | 29 Comments

Bushkerrydebate This sounds mighty familiar.

Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran and Syria, have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives at a regional conference here on the Iraqi security crisis, government officials said Wednesday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi told The Associated Press that Russia and France were studying the invitation, but “I don’t see any sign they will refuse.”

“Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, even the U.S and Britain have informed us they will participate,” he said, although Tehran has said publicly it has made no decision. Abawi also said China had agreed to attend.

Oh, right, I know where I heard it before.

John Kerry, September 30, 2004:

I know I can do a better job in Iraq. I have a plan to have a summit with all of the allies, something this president has not yet achieved, not yet been able to do to bring people to the table.

Almost 3 years and 2,100 American lives later.

Screw these horrible people and screw them in the afterlife.

Topic: Iraq

Your Tax Dollars Wasted In “War On Porn”

3:49 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Because right up there with terrorism, murder, and other sorts of crime is the off chance that people could see a boob.

[Brent] Ward, who was among the most strident adversaries of the porn industry as U.S. Attorney in Utah in the 1980s, is heading a new Justice Department task force aimed at enforcing federal

You see what porn does to you? Think of the children, Jenna Jameson!

obscenity laws.

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The way Ward sees it, American culture is saturated with pornography, and it has profound consequences, eroding families, increasing violence against women, warping perceptions of sex and helping child predators groom victims.

“We’re not going to prosecute it away, but it’s important, I think, that Americans see their government trying to do something about it,” he said. The task force, with a total of four prosecutors, 10 FBI agents and a postal inspector, has the job of putting together cases that can be prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in various states.

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Wade Smith, a lawyer who defended P.H.E., said Ward took a hard line in his distaste for pornography.

“He was unwilling to acknowledge that there was a place for any kind of adult material in the framework of the First Amendment,” including publications like Playboy, Smith said. “As a matter of fact, he was extremely and completely rigid in wanting us out of business.”

Judges first in Washington, D.C., and later the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the strategy went too far. The 10th Circuit judges called the charges “the tainted fruit of a prosecutorial attempt to curtail P.H.E.’s future First Amendment protected speech.”

What a psycho and an amazing waste of taxpayer funds against a constitutionally protected form of speech.

Topic: Free Speech

Slow Drip Massacre Continues

2:57 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | News | 9 Comments

Purge baby, purge.

The U.S. attorney from New Mexico who was recently fired by the Bush administration said Wednesday that he believes he was forced out because he refused to rush an indictment in an ongoing probe of local Democrats a month before November’s Congressional elections.

David Iglesias said two members of Congress separately called in mid October to inquire about the timing of an ongoing probe of a kickback scheme and appeared eager for an indictment to be issued on the eve of the elections in order to benefit the Republicans. He refused to name the members of Congress because he said he feared retaliation.

Topic: George W. Bush

All Knowledge Is Here

2:46 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

It’s in Conservapedia, so it must be true.

Cheney’s Power Bill – A Taxpayer Largesse

2:19 pm EST February 28th, 2007 | Politics | 12 Comments

Setting the Record Straight.

Red State America

11:25 am EST February 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 21 Comments

A note to redstaters. It’s really hard for us coastal liberal elites to not caricature you as knuckle-dragging drooling morons when you act like knuckle-dragging drooling morons.

Topic: Humor

America’s New Sleeping Giant?

10:56 pm EST February 27th, 2007 | News | 9 Comments

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” – Yamamoto (not really)

From the Post:

Clinton, of New York, continues to lead Obama and other rivals in the Democratic contest, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. But her once-sizable margin over the freshman senator from Illinois was sliced in half during the past month largely because of Obama’s growing support among black voters.

Much like how the media dropped the ball on reporting what Katrina has done structurally and politically to black America (let’s just say all the inroads Bush tried to make in the black vote are lost for a generation for the GOP), they aren’t yet aware of what I think would be the outcome of Obama as the Democratic candidate. As the failed campaigns of Michael Steele, Lynn Swann and Ken Blackwell can testify, it takes more than just a black face to get black voters out for you. There is already a bond between the Democratic party and black voters, and while it is already an integral part of the machine that gets Democrats elected to office, you would see it work overtime (churches, civic organizations, online and beyond) if the end result would be the first black president. The circle jerk of arguments in the media and academia about Obama’s “blackness” are just kind of nonsense noise in the real world. Should Obama make it through to the general election, there will be a huge new army of people who want to tell their kids, grandkids, etc. that they voted for the first black president.

>> Obama ’08: The Black Vote

UPDATE: The Nation’s Ari Melber has more at “Black Voters Like Obama”

Topic: President Obama