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Brad DeLong weighs in on the idiocy. That share price is so shortable, it’s ridiculous.

Now if only I had some free capital…

only, like, funny and interesting

I wonder how long I’ve been up. It feels like at least forty minutes. Maybe I should look at the time. No, don’t look at the time. How’s that gonna help? I’m just curious. Don’t look. DO NOT LOOK…three- thirty. Are you happy? Idiot. I told you not to look but you know everything….I can’t stand this quilt. The comforter inside always slips down. I’m grabbing at nothing here! I haven’t had a good quilt in a long time. Where’d this quilt come from anyway? Tomorrow I’ll mention the quilt. She’s not gonna like that. She’ll say there’s nothing wrong with the quilt and that’ll be that. It’s sad I can’t have a quilt I rove…Rove, damn it, that’s the second time today I’ve done that. God, I hate that man. See, this is what he wants. He wants to get in your head. He wants to keep you up. You’re giving him what he wants!…

… but not for the reasons you may assume

Staff Sgt. Christoper Piper, 43, served in both Afghanistan and
Iraq and was awarded a bronze star for his combat service. The Green Beret died when his convoy was bombed June 3 in Afghanistan and a right-wing Protestant Christian church group from Topeka, Kansas is planning to demonstrate at Piper’s funeral services at the Old North Church. They claim U.S. soldiers like Piper are dying because the country is being punished for its tolerance of what they see as immoral behavior, such as homosexuality.

The group, from the Westboro Baptist Church, protested several weeks ago in Dracut and Lexington, Mass., carrying signs depicting homosexual sex, with slogans such as “Pope In Hell” and “God Hates Fags,” and “God Hates The U.S.” Police called in extra officers to handle the demonstrations.

Well that’s certainly supportive and respectful. Where the hell do these cockroaches come from, anyway?

I think we need to have a meeting about the meeting. Actually, we need to have a pre-meeting planning meeting to get ready for the meeting for the meeting.

I rule.

or, in this case, George Soros.

While the Soros-Ledecky group is not seen as the frontrunner to win the bidding for the Nationals, who should be awarded to their new owner at the end of the 2005 season, the very prospect that Soros could have a stake in the team is enough to irritate Congressional Republicans.

“I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes,” said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), the Northern Virginia lawmaker who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings. “I don’t think they want to get involved in a political fight.”

Davis, whose panel also oversees District of Columbia issues, said that if a Soros sale went through, “I don’t think it’s the Nats that get hurt. I think it’s Major League Baseball that gets hurt. They enjoy all sorts of exemptions” from anti-trust laws.

What a sorry lot of human beings those GOoPers are. Welcome to the One Party State, comrade.

During Vietnam, Rumsfeld Criticized Administration For Credibility Gap

A 1966 article in the Chicago Tribune quoted Rumsfeld as saying the following: “The administration should clarify its intent in Viet Nam,” he said. “People lack confidence in the credibility of our government.” Even our allies are beginning to suspect what we say, he charged. “It’s a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy,” he said. “With the secrecy, it’s impossible. The American people will do what’s right when they have the information they need.” [Chicago Tribune, 4/13/66]
…
Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.), U.S. Army: “People are skeptical of what they’re hearing out of the Pentagon. I think Secretary Rumsfeld’s credibility has been damaged by serious misjudgments.” [MSNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 6/23/05]

Remember duhbya’s Gunsmoke pledge? No, the other one. No, the other one. The one about not negotiating with terrorists.

Turns out, we’ve been holding secret talks with insurgents in Iraq.

U.S. officials recently met secretly with Iraqi insurgent commanders at a summer villa north of Baghdad to try to negotiate an end to the bloodshed, a British newspaper reported today.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, asked about the report, suggested that meetings between Iraqi officials and insurgents “go on all the time” and said “we facilitate those from time to time.”

The insurgent commanders “apparently came face to face” with four American officials during meetings on June 3 and June 13 at a summer villa near Balad, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, The Sunday Times newspaper in London said.

Now, of course, the fun is going to be watching the rhetorical contortions into which the administration will twist in order to avoid being in negotiations with those bloodthirsty deadenders who gassed their own people and tortured them… when they weren’t relaxing in their rape rooms. From “Baathist deadenders” to “assassins” to “Sunni Freedom Fighters” in six seconds, baby.

That’s Don Jefe to you, bitches.

Take the test to see which Soprano (et. al.) you are.

No shit? You mean the loud, vociferous supporters of the war, the members of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, are emulating their chickenhawk heroes of duhbya, Cheney, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Thomas, and every neocon ever?

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!

“Frankly, I want to be a politician. I’d like to survive to see that,” said Vivian Lee, 17, a war supporter visiting the convention from Los Angeles,

Lee said she supports the war but would volunteer only if the United States faced a dire troop shortage or “if there’s another Sept. 11.”

“As long as there’s a steady stream of volunteers, I don’t see why I necessarily should volunteer,” said Lee, who has a cousin deployed in the Middle East.

In an election season overwhelmed by memories of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military’s newest war ranks supreme among the worries confronting much of Generation Y’ers. Iraq is their war.

“If there was a need presented, I would go,” said Chris Cusmano, a 21-year-old member of the College Republicans organization from Rocky Point, N.Y. But he said he hasn’t really considered volunteering. …
“I physically probably couldn’t do a whole lot” in Iraq, said Tiffanee Hokel, 18, of Webster City, Iowa, who called the war a moral imperative. She knows people posted in Iraq, but she didn’t flinch when asked why she wouldn’t go.

“I think I could do more here,” Hokel said, adding that she’s focusing on political action that supports the war and the troops.

“We don’t have to be there physically to fight it,” she said.

Notice that last shitnugget – it’s just another way of reiterating Cheney’s “I had better things to do.”

Cowards.

Grade inflation at its finest. First preschool graduation (for what?!?), now 44 valedictorians. Back in my day, we didn’t have this kind of affirmative coddling, you entitled little monkeys. Instead, we got beat, TWICE, and we LIKED IT.

I don’t care if it’s the heart as originally reported or the knee as the current news states, here’s to you Affliction o’ Cheney. With any luck, we’ll have a new VP soon.

From The Rude Pundit, of course.

Let?s dispose of this quickly, shall we? When Howard Dean speaks, he?s speaking as the chair of the Democratic Party. The Democrats pay him. If Democrats around the nation don?t like what Dean says, then they can cease donating to the party. When Dick Durbin speaks, he?s representing the people of Illinois, to whom he will be answerable when he?s up for re-election. When Karl Rove speaks, he?s talking as an official with the White House. The only person he?s accountable to is the President, who, as Scott McClellan so dismissingly pointed out, won?t ask Rove to apologize. Rove?s paid by each and every tax-paying American. He represents all of us.

So when that cock gobbler wants to get his rocks off by jackin? it in front of “hundreds” of slavering lap dogs, ready to lick his scrotum at a moment?s notice, and he wants to use that moment of yankin? his crank to declare that liberals are pussies who want American soldiers to die, he may as well add, “Oh, and any of you who disagree with me can suck it. And, hey, thanks for the paycheck.” (Which is, more or less, what he said last night on Scarborough Country.)

You know, the author of the slam piece on Clinton that’s so bad even conservatives make a stinkface when they walk by. It’s awesome. Klein gets fucking decimated. Good on ya, Al.

Direct links to Part 1 and Part 2.

WA Supreme Court says you can’t sue your defense attorney for malpractice unless you are innocent of the underlying case. This makes no sense to me at all; a defendant’s innocence or guilt is a factor that should independent from whether or not their attorneys were sufficiently diligent. Moreover, if you’ve been the victim of poor representation you are far more likely to be found guilty of the underlying charges.

Moreover even acquittal doesn’t seem enough by the majority decision, as
that “proves only legal innocence, not ‘actual’ innocence.”

The dissent covers it well:

“There is no reason to invite malpractice in criminal cases by heightening the plaintiff’s burden to prove post-conviction relief and actual innocence,” he wrote. “In every situation, a client should rightfully expect competent legal representation.”

Precisely.

I don’t think this ruling will stand forever.