The Liberal Avenger

From the AFP:

The White House denied Thursday that the United States seeks permanent military bases in Iraq, days after the US “war czar” said that would be part of talks next year on long-term security ties. “We do not seek permanent bases in Iraq,” spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters after Lieutenant General Douglas Lute said Monday that the flashpoint issue would be part of negotiations to decide the future of US troops in Iraq.

Asked about such installations, Lute told reporters: “That’s another dimension of continuing US support to the government of Iraq, and will certainly be a key item for negotiation next year.”

Inconveniently, the commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said that the Marines might not be able to leave Iraq for several years. I guess nobody gave him the memo about the White House’s new talking points. Perhaps he was bearing in mind the fact that there are fewer volunteers for pro-American paramilitary units than the pentagon has been reporting up until now.

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The Rude Pundit

Fun With Rudy:
For big time high-lariousity, check out ABC's Blotter page about how Rudy Giuliani's then-fuckbag Judith Nathan essentially used the NYPD "as her personal taxi service." In the box that says "The Blotter Recommends," there's a list of the following greatest hits for America's Mayor: "Giuliani's Ties to Qatar Raise Questions for Mr. 9/ll" and "Out of Spotlight, Giuliani Embraces Convicted Moneyman" and "Photos: Giuliani and the Priest," which bears explaining, which we get in the next line: "Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens."

Over at the toxic waste dump known as Townhall.com, conservative blogger and obese hate purveyor John Hawkins has done a great deal of the work of destroying Giuliani for the Republican base. In his column (if by "column," you mean, "the howling rage against the world for one's inability to get fucked ever, even at 4 a.m. in a Shanghai whorehouse with a hundred Euro bill wrapped around your dick") titled "Rudy Giuliani Would Be Our Bill Clinton," Hawkins goes through all those things that oughta make Clinton-haters beshit themselves fretting: the marriages, the affair, the Kerik, the pro-life, pro-gay, anti-gun stands, the possible child molester buddy. As ...   more »

Daily New Yorker cartoon

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Jesus' General

Join us at Cafe Wellstone in Second Life for dancing and political discussion as we celebrate the General's birthday by dressing up like theocrats, neocons, conservatives, republicans, pundits, right wing nuts or conservative "principles" (yes that means that under your clothes, you're wearing leather, latex, lingerie, and/or those Opus Dei barb wire things justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts have wrapped around their legs).

DJ Rocky Torok will be spinning the bytes. Dick! Cheney will be behind the bar pouring drinks and regaling us with tails of Iranian death stars.

No gifts

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Map 0' Shag

Vavoooom

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Jesus' General

Sen. Denny Altes
Arkansas State Senate

Dear Sen. Altes,

I like your strategy of gaining support for shipping Mexicans back to Mexico by pointing out that we're already "being outpopulated by the blacks," but why limit it to just them. What about the Swedes. The God damned lutefisk-eating bastards breed like rabbits. They've overrun the whole upper Midwest and turned it Lutheran. If we'd shipped them the moment they arrived, Minnesota would be as Baptist as an illicit hand job behind the Piggly Wiggly.

Think about it. No more hot dishes. No more "you betchas." No more Garrison Keillor. If you want to sell that ethnic cleansing plan of yours, you got to bring up the Swedes.

Heterosexually yours,

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