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I was just watching him on FOXnews, gushing about how great today is, with this huge grin. He could barely contain himself. He showed pictures of all these Mosulians (Mosulians?) walking to the polling places, which was really nice to see, and kept comparing it to the Berlin Wall falling and the Civil [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Iraqi Voting Link Roundup (in case you didn’t know about the Friends of Democracy blog.

The Mark of Freedom……, one of Najma’s links. She voted Friday morning. Lookit the picture.

PS, another of her links:

Democracy in Iraq (is coming: A blog by an Iraqi on the future of Iraq, an Iraqi who is excited about [...]

Categories: War and Peace

From A.E. Brain:

Via A Voyage to Arcturus, an article from MSNBC : Asteroid Douglasadams was among the 71 newly named celestial objects announced Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass.

Read the rest.

Meanwhile, there’s an early review of The Hitchhiker’s [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Tim Blair - Film Viewed

A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD were shocked to find a sex film instead. Still, they got their money’s worth: Alan and Anne Leigh-Browne, from Wellington, Somerset, had been expecting to enjoy The Pajama Game. [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Oh goodness, can you imagine the catfights when the Wicked Witch of the West faces off against the Wicked Witch of the East?

Babs, evidently, has upped her hair salon budget since the headshot pictures were taken.

PoliPundit has heard new rumours about Babs running, something I first heard back on the 24th

I can’t wait.

Categories: Politics

The Dems in Philly are going to have to step up the pre-voting on the voting machines next election.

PoliPundit - Pennsylvania Politics

Categories: Politics

I get the same referrer spam Charles Johnson does!

Categories: Wildcard

Trolling the news sites for info about the elections. It’s not quite 8 am there, yet there are very few substantive articles. I can only take that to mean “so far, so good.”

I’m sure if half Baghdad were under rubble and broken glass, it would be everywhere.

Categories: War and Peace

Good, if perhaps useless, news.

CA Yankee - Poll Finds Rossi Would Win A Revote

Categories: Politics

Just continuin’ the conversation.

Anyway, read this. It has the ninme stamp of approval.

Kennedy’s Disgrace

I’ve been trying to think of something to say about the moron, but every time I do I just start gritting my teeth, which doesn’t translate well to print.

Categories: Politics

From yesterday’s Grapevine (link provided today):

Activist’s Arrest At President Bush’s press conference yesterday, ABC News reporter Terry Moran described the case of a Jordanian activist, Ali Hattar, who Moran said had been arrested and charged with slander for promoting a boycott of U.S. goods. Moran called it an “abuse of [...]

Categories: Politics

From Instapundit, A Very Special Effect

Looking at the latest pictures of pre-election violence in Iraq, this little gem fairly leapt out at me. Look at the pictures carefully, then read the analysis below.

Look at them, do, then read the analysis below.

You know what it reminds me of?

Those pictures taking during the Battle of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I saw this on the FOXnews crawler this afternoon and thought to meself, eh what?

I see I had not been hallucinating.

LGF - 1/28/2005: Adopt-a-Nazi in Oregon

With pictures and simply hilarious comments by Charles Johnson. Just sayin’.

hee hee

Categories: People and Current Events

PowerLine has an incredible picture of a man voting in Michigan, in tears because his son, who died in the 1990-91 Shiite uprising, couldn’t vote with him. There was a remarkable woman on the news today, voting in, I think, LA, hobbling along the polling place on a cane, with a middle aged relative, [...]

Categories: War and Peace

We just watched Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s very 1950s swashbuckling. Or at least in the same spirit. Carrying the mantle, if you will.

Peter saw it when it first came out on DVD, but didn’t like it much then. He still thinks it’s too long, but that’s what everyone thinks about [...]

Categories: Entertainment