Wow, Pandagon has clearly reached the big time, for when I just tried to access the site, I got the message that they had exceeded their bandwidth (again), so there was nothing to see, and I should just move along. I sure hope they get enough money through their fundraiser this week to buy some more. Or maybe Andrew Sullivan can spare some -- I can't believe he's used the $75,000 worth from last year yet.
3:12:48 PM
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Weekly GOP Team Leader News
This week's theme: the Democrats are all wild-eyed, bomb-throwing, Lyndon La Rouche-esque conspiracy mongers! Never mind context, or Madeline SAID she was joking, or that neither she nor McDermott are running for President; the facts are, the Democrats are out to destroy President Bush through one of their Masonic plots!
Okay, I get 5 GOPoints for alerting you:
Dear Republican,
Last week I told you about how Howard Dean had stooped to a new low by suggesting that President Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened and did nothing to stop it. This week two more Democrats joined him by floating more ridiculous conspiracy theories about President Bush.
First, on Monday Rep. McDermott, D-Wash., said that the Administration timed the capture of Saddam Hussein to help President Bush. Tuesday night, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright asked Mort Kondracke if he supposed the Bush administration had Osama bin Laden hidden somewhere and were waiting until October to announce his capture. She was not smiling and when Kondracke told her, “you can’t possibly think that” she responded that “it was a possibility.”
When DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe was asked about Dean’s9/11 remarks on CNN he refused to repudiate them. How can the Chairman of one of our nation's two parties treat as legitimate discourse the repugnant suggestion that the President of the United States had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks of September 11 but allowed them to occur? Will any Democrat seeking the highest office in the land repudiate this despicable approach to politics?
As Team Leaders you can help by writing letters to the editor, calling talk radio shows, talking to your friends. Tell the Democrats to stop encouraging such a despicable approach to politics.
Sincerely,
Ed Gillespie, RNC Chairman
I also get 5 points for every time I spread the word on internet message boards and chat room.
Report on Internet Activity!
Please fill out the form below as a way of telling us about discussions you are participating in online in message boards and chat rooms. Filling out the form will also earn you 5 GOPoints!
And I get points for calling my local radio station and asking it what the Democrats would do to make America safer. While my only local radio station is a country-western one that uses taped blocks of music (and doesn't even use life humans to give you the time and weather; in fact, I think the whole outfit is run by Colossus, the Forbin Project), I'm gonna make that call!
This Week's Action Alert: Alert the Media!
The Democrats anger has made them reckless. Don't let them get away with their ridiculous rhetoric call your local radio stations and ask what the Democrats would do to make America safer.
Anyway, if I keep this up, the Team Leader Ballistic missile (with optional nuclear warhead) will be mine in no time!
3:02:03 PM
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A Christmas Carol: The 2nd of the 3 Spirits, and His Chick
So, there I was, dozing on the couch, too tired to turn off the TV, which was tuned to Fox News. But it was an uneasy sleep, punctuated by the flat voices of brittle women saying, "We report, we decide," "Michael Jackson charged with killing Laci Peterson -- coming up next on 'The Fair and Balanced Saddam and Celebrity News,'" and "Secularist Supreme Court declares that every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Details at 9:00"
But I abruptly snapped back to consciousness when a snide voice shouted in my ear "Irresponsible web sites harm this country! They're a threat to democracy!"
Without opening my eyes, I replied, "I thought you said it was the print media which was a threat to democracy?"
The voice thundered back, "Well, they both are. The elite media is a threat to you, the folks, because it won't review my books in the NY Times, and because it keeps contradicting me. The irresponsible internet is a threat to this nation because people can say whatever they want to! Whatever they want, and there are no standards. Shouldn't there be some kind of standards of behavior for the internet, and, you know, a brutal police force to arrest all those who violate those standards? And shouldn't the Internet Cops be allowed to use starvation, drugs, bad food, sleep deprivation, and behavior modification involving rap music to wring confessions out of these traitors"
I wearily peeled back my eyelids, and saw, hovering over my couch, the same blotchy-faced specter who had appeared previously. But this time a hideous banshee floated at this side.
"Bah, humbug!" the crone shouted. "The world has gone to pot, and I hate everything!"
"I suppose she's the 'Ghost of Christmas Presents From The NRO,'" I muttered.
"No, she's Liz Trotta. She's a bitter, old conservative, so we let her come on Fox now and then to complain. It makes the rest of feel young and hip in comparison."
The crone yelled to personages only she saw. "MoveOn.org is affiliated with The World Socialist and financed by the CANADIANS! It is, I tell you! We could have won in Vietnam if only people had listened to me and gotten rid of the interfering politicians, liberal journalists, and raunchy hippies!
Soylent Green is made from people! Why won't anyone believe me?"
I addressed myself to the blotchy spirit, still dressed in his suit and tie, but now wearing an outsized "No Spin Zone" baby cap. "So, are we now off to see the Crachits, happy despite their poverty?"
His lips narrowed in annoyance, and he replied, "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present, here to show you how the secularists, ACLU, and NY Times have outlawed any mention of Christ at this time of year, ruined Roy Moore's 'Rockin' Round the Rock Special', and made the baby Jesus cry. And then we'll go visit some work houses and orphanages, and you'll see that they're actually quite nice, and a tribute to faith-based initiatives And we'll finish up by visiting Tiny Tim in his cell, sentenced to 20 years by the PC Police because he said, 'God bless us, everyone.'"
"That didn't happen. You know it didn't, Bill."
"Well, it COULD have happened, and that's the important thing. But first, I want to tell you that you can't believe a word Matt Drudge says! Now you've got him and these other people, Michael Moore and all of these crazies, none of them taking any responsibility. And other people on the information super highway -- I see this stuff everyday. My staff brings it in and puts it on my desk, and much of it is about me -- you know, because I ask them to do searches, so I can see what people are saying about me. And it's irresponsible -- none of it is true. TomPaine.com, which is run by Bill Moyer's son, gets lots of money from that Soros guy who is out to destroy America. And Bill Moyers is pure evil, I tells ya, EEEEEVILLLLLL!"
"Um, this wouldn't be about Matt having posted book sales records which disprove your statement to Matt Lauer that your book outsold Hillary's, would it? Because I can see how that would sting, after you had told your viewers for the past several months that you had to beat Hillary's sales or the sun wouldn't come out anymore. And heck, you weren't just beat by Hillary -- even Ann Coulter sold more books than you. And Al Franken trounced you but good . . ."
The ghost tried to strangle me, having forgotten once again that his non-corporeal hands could no longer do that kind of thing. So, after having blustered for several minutes about how I didn't treat the ghost of Halloween Present this way when HE shown up in my dream, the red-faced specter said that he always knew that I'd be unfair and mean to him, and he only showed up to prove a point. He shouted that he was going to tell all of his fans just how mean I was to him, and he was WALKING OUT OF THIS INTERVIEW. Right now!
"Fine," I sighed. "Spirit, haunt me no longer! Just take Grandma with you when you go. And don't come back or I'll tell Matt Drudge and he'll get hopped up on coke and slit your throat."
He sputtered for a while, but finally grabbed Liz Trotta, and was gone. And I had learned nothing, which was the important thing. I was even more weary than before, but got up and changed the channel before settling back down to rest. Maybe I HAD learned something after all.
I was asleep again before the "Green Acres" theme song and the faux hayseed announcer indicating that "this time the girls got in a heap of trouble when they got jobs at sausage factory" had a time to register. It didn't sound good . . .but I was too tired to do anything about it.
UPDATE: Sadly, No! has a good recap of the "Bill Bested in Book Buying Brouhaha." If you want to know more about the secularization of Christmas, Bill will tell you all about it here: The Assault On Christmas (to start with). And here's some more info on book sales from USA Today
The phenomenon: No one knew for sure if readers would warm to Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir, Living History. They did, Publisher Simon & Schuster says Living History has sold more than 2.25 million worldwide. The paperback is due in April with 500,000 copies.
Ripple effect: Signaled politically left books challenging those from the right.
• Tops from the left: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken (No. 21 on the annual list) and Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore (No. 60); Stupid White Men.
• Tops from the right: Treason by Ann Coulter (No. 58) and Who's Looking Out For You? by Bill O'Reilly (No. 63).
4:41:46 AM
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And the Zodiac Killer Case Shows We Need to Re-Think Our Principles Regarding Reading Horoscopes
Fried Green al-Qaedas gives us the latest on the Consensual Cannibalism case, and how Germany if having a hard time coming up with an appropriate charge for the killer, since they have no laws against cannibalism and since the victim asked to be killed:
So the best law that the German courts can dig up is "killing on request", a charge akin to America's assisted suicide law, which means that Meiwes is looking at five years max. His lawyers think this is far too long, and the defense is bringing out their five star witnesses: men who Meiwes didn't eat.
Mark tipped us off to an opinion piece by Denise Noe, who has previously written internet articles on Richard Speck, the Lonely Hearts Killers, the Bob Crane murder case, and Ann Coulter (AKA Countess Elizabeth Báthory). So, she's interested in sex and murder. This is what Denise thinks we should learn from the Meiwes case:
Since the 1960s, liberals have repeated the mantra that "whatever two consenting adults want to do in the privacy of their own homes is no one else's business, providing they aren't hurting anyone else." As an early supporter of both women's liberation and gay liberation, I have said this myself.
Did Meiwes and the man he destroyed carry this to its logical conclusion? Meiwes did his gruesome work in private. The victim repeatedly urged Meiwes to cut him up and objected to nothing that went on the night of his death.
Was anyone else harmed? It might be possible to see the slain man's loved ones as "harmed," but liberals typically reject harm to the family as a reason to limit individual autonomy. After all, a bigoted family suffers when its kin marry interracially or by discovering a relative is gay.
Perhaps political and social liberals need to rethink our principles. Is the last stop for complete personal freedom of choice Armin Meiwes' freezer?
So, women's liberation, gay rights, and consensual murder and cannibalism: once you get on that slipperly slope, you just keep on sinking until you're in somebody's freezer. And that's why it's good we didn't let Germany bid on the Iraq reconstruction projects.
2:15:52 AM
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Stuff I Bet You Didn't Know About Minnesota
State bird: The loon.
State drink: milk.
State fish: the walleye.
State muffin: blueberry.
State hypocrite, foul language division: James Lileks. TBOGG has the whole f-ing story.
State hypocrite, newspaper division: The Star Tribune. Rittenhouse Review does some investigative reporting and finds that not only does the paper not practice what it preaches to the NY Times, it also apparently can't stay up after dark.
1:21:00 AM
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The TownHall That Stole Christmas
Today's secret word: Saddam. Yet again.
Marvin Olasky
Marv lists his top under-covered stories of the week.
3) President Bush, in Tuesday's ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, voiced support for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but such a move is still being portrayed as an entry of religion into politics, rather than a defense of limited government. What's being missed is that strong marriages are our only bulwark against bigger government. Women raising children outside of marriage look to government for help, and a compassionate culture cannot say no.
Wow, it's good that Marv alerted us to real issue here: that if homosexuals are allowed to marry, then the government will have to raise the flood of illegitimate babies that will result. For, as we learned earlier from TownHall genius Dennis Prager, unmarried women vote Democratic because they want the goverment to be their boyfriend and take care of them. The same principle no doubt applies to gays. So, we should FORCE them to get married, so they'll vote Republican.
1) Amid the excitement surrounding Saddam's capture, one important story did not get much attention in the United States. The (London) Telegraph headline told the tale: "Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam." The gist: Iraq's coalition government has uncovered documentary proof that Saddam was kept informed of the progress of Mohammed Atta, the Al Qaeda mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States.
Next week: Marv will report on under-reported ways to make money, such as helping corrupt Nigerians get millions out of the country by giving them your banking information.
Rich Lowry
Rich, who previously railed about how you can't get a good toy gun at Toys 'R Us, and about those who would ban beer ads during college football games, tackles his most important subject yet: really hard florists exams.
You can't become a florist in Louisiana without passing a ridiculously difficult and subjective state-licensing exam, which is a blatant way for existing florists to lock newcomers out of the market. During the past three years, the pass rate for the floral exam has been less than 50 percent.
Mike Adams
A bunch of questions that keep Mike awake at night, such as why people keep calling him paranoid whenever he talks about the vast PC-wing conspiracy against the College Republicans, and why do the other professors always use that condescending voice when they talk to him.
Last week, the College Republicans appealed a decision to de-recognize them as an official student group. During their appeal, a professor called the president of the group “arrogant” and their advisor “paranoid.” He shouted them down every time they tried to make an argument. He also used a condescending voice just like that guy in the movie “Office Space” (did you get the memo I sent you?).
Mona Charen
Why can't you liberals stop thinking and just be happy for once?
Savor it. Hitler deprived the Allies of the satisfaction of executing him. Stalin died in his bed. Pol Pot died of natural causes. But Saddam Hussein, that vicious, depraved worm of a man, was plucked from his rat hole.
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah would deal with complaints about gerrymandering by drastically expanding congress, and by giving Ranger Smith nuclear weapons.
But, look: It is simply inevitable that politicians will fight to draw congressional districts in the most advantageous way possible. Expecting them not to is like expecting Yogi Bear to abstain from eating picnic baskets for the sake of improving tourism.
David Limbaugh
David plugs Rich Lowry's book. Will Rich plug David's booK? Will Dave get a invitation to join the exclusive NRO Corner? And what about Naomi . . .I mean, Hillary? Tune in next week to find out.
As you would expect from National Review's Rich Lowry, this is an intelligent book that not only chronicles the events, but trenchantly analyzes their historical significance.Buy this book for yourself and a friend this Christmas. Read it, and put it in a safe place. Then bring it out for the 2008 campaign and spoil Hillary's plan to campaign on a revised version of the Clinton legacy.
Oliver North
Ollie pulls a Krauthammer and claims that Bush has driven the left crazy by capturing Saddam.
Finally, the loopy leftist rhetoric in the aftermath of Saddam's capture obscures the extraordinary courage, training, persistence and discipline of the American soldiers who pursued and caught the Butcher of Baghdad. Rather than wasting time inventing crazy conspiracy theories and efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, the Democrats and their media allies ought to simply try hanging around with these heroes for a few days. It would be good for their mental health.
Yes, they should hang out with the troops, like Ollie has done. THAT would teach him that there are more important things in life than worrying about just who traded arms for hostages.
Charles Krauthammer
Since Ollie stole his shtick about Bush-phobia, Chuck decides to analyze the military's masterful myth-busting skills, as demonstrated by their making that videotape of Saddam being symbolically raped by a virile symbol of American might and oral hygiene, the tongue depressor.
End of the myth. It is not just that he did not resist the soldiers with the guns. He did not even resist the medic with the tongue depressor.
So, Town Hall. One of the most under-reported frauds of the week.
12:52:05 AM
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