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The Left’s hatred of George W. Bush has no rival... ...or so it once seemed. But not so fast. There is a new breed of GWB hater: the Betrayed Conservative, a creature of surprisingly intense emotions for a member of the rational Right. The Betrayed Conservative is good news and bad news for the conservative movement. The good news is that there are vocal, passionate conservatives out there – large numbers of them – unwilling to accept anything less than sound conservative policy out of Washington. They are angry and active and have imposed some measure of discipline on that...

PENCE: Well, it wouldn't be the first time that House conservatives disagreed with this administration, Chris. Many of us broke with the president on the expansion of the Education Department and No Child Left Behind, and a few dozen of us broke with the president when he advanced the creation of the first new entitlement in the Medicare prescription drug bill. What we put out this week we actually call the Contract With America Renewed, because it was based on the budget that the brand new Republican majority passed out of the House of Representatives in 1995. We balanced the...

MIDI - BOTTLE OF WINE (scroll down for the MIDI file and click on it) Bottle of wine, Gregory's fine...Imus says call in when you're sober Yes, he was drunk...he is a skunk...for him it soon may be over He called Scott "jerk" while he was at work At news conference time, he really is slime He thinks it all is about him India's language is wonderful...hey, David, you are so full of bull Bottle of wine, Gregory's fine...Imus says call in when you're sober Yes, he was drunk...he is a skunk...for him it soon may be over He...

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=88747 As we prepare to welcome the leader of the world’s most powerful republic, it behooves us to make sure that we grapple with facts, not just biased opinions. It is unfortunate that so much of the information about the US is derived by our elites from the eastern seaboard, Left-leaning media who are on the opposite side of the American political spectrum from George W. Bush and who therefore have a vested interest in opposing and disparaging him. The images of Bush they have succeeded in planting internationally are that Bush is dim-witted, a simple-minded religious fanatic, a supporter...

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006 Power of Parrotheads put to the test BY BO PETERSEN AND CHRIS DIXON The Post and Courier After a big Kosher pickle and a cold draft beer, which way do Parrotheads steer? The Columbia chapter of an international Jimmy Buffett fan club hopes it'll be toward the DMV. The club wants the S.C. General Assembly to create a "Parrothead" specialty license plate for motor vehicles, with $10 of the cost of each $34 plate going to the Palmetto Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association or the Upstate South Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The plate was...

A German court has sentenced a man to a one year suspended sentence for trying to sell toilet paper with the word 'koran' on it to mosques. In an accompanying letter the 61 year old Manfred van H called the koran a 'terrorists cookbook'. The court found him guilty of insulting the islamic belief and of disturbing the public order. Van H sent the toilet paper to fifteen mosques, tv stations, and magazines. With the profits Van H wanted to erect a monument to those that have died at the hands of islamic terror. Iran complained to the German ministry...

Here's a toon about the media and Mohammed. http://toonshine.blogspot.com/

Dear Mr. Tagliabue, I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to you and the league for my intemperate remarks at our ceremony at Qwest Field concerning the officiating during the Superbowl. On Monday, just one short day after “losing” (oops) the game, I was still burned about the outcome, and I had consumed about a pound of bad jumbo shrimp for lunch, my stomach was churning, and it was just a bad day all around. I came home from Detroit, our cat was missing from the house, the Governor’s dog was hit by a car, and she was blaming...

In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

Naked Mole Rate Colony or The Democratic Underground?

Bush’s giant Right Wing Noise Machine (RWNM) loves to preach about the Bush economic miracle. In fact, the RWNM’s current thinking is Bush doesn’t spend enough time talking about his economic triumphs. If only he did, then everyone would fall in line and believe in the great Bush economic miracle. There is one problem with this argument: it’s a lie. Any way you look at the Bush economy, it comes up short. Today, I want to compare Bush’s job creation record with other economic recoveries. As usual, Bush comes up way short. The national Bureau of Economic Research has identified...

Tussaud's turn Bush and Blair into pantomime cow Thu Dec 15, 5:04 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - Madame Tussaud's has turned US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair into a pantomime cow for their Christmas display, the waxwork museum said. The world statesmen were dressed up as a cow from "Jack and the Beanstalk" in a new scene featuring characters from pantomime favourites at the popular London tourist venue. Some other famous faces got a festive makeover. "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston has been cast as Snow White, her ex-husband Brad Pitt as Prince Charming -- while...

Due to the importance of the latest discoveries, here's another update. For the first time I'm updating twice on one day. I'm sure you've already been waiting for some proof about the GPL infringement by F4I. This post contains it in the already well-known form of a comparison between the original C code and an annotated disassembly of the F4I binary. All C code is from the function DoShuffle from the file drms.c which is part of the VideoLAN project. I want to mention though that I'm not going to explain all code because the function is pretty long. I've...

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

I only say this because it's impossible to diverge from the "group think" or else you'll be prohibited from coming back. Why?

A woman sued the Archdiocese of St. Louis and Our Lady of Help of Christians Roman Catholic Church in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on Friday, claiming she was hit in the head by a baseball near a church picnic dunking booth. Donna Tinsley's suit in St. Louis Circuit Court says she was sitting down when hit by the baseball, which had been thrown at a dunking booth target...

WASHINGTON, DC --- After a recent shocking revelation that a terrorist in Guantanamo Bay prison was forced to wear a bra and act like a dog, Senator Dick Durbin called for banning all fraternities on college campuses. "Gitmo is run just like the Gulags, like Nazi death camps, like Pol Pot's killing fields," said Durbin. "And these recent antics demonstrate that the tactics of these monsters are similar to those used in hazing incidents at fraternities. We owe it to ourselves to end the use of tactics that would make Hitler blush at our own university system. Some day the...

ESPN gets less sports-centered Cabler to broaden its field with more series, telepix By JOHN DEMPSEY Less hockey and baseball. More original movies and series. That's one big equation on the mind of Mark Shapiro, executive VP of programming and production for ESPN, who's gung ho about broadening the audience for ESPN by reaching beyond the stereotypical potbellied sports nut, stretched out in his undershirt on a Barcalounger with a can of beer in one hand and a remote in the other. ESPN and ESPN2 aimed the National Hockey League games it carried from 1999 through 2004 squarely at this...

A Muslim kicker who's been described by NFL scouts as having "a cannon for a leg" was detained yesterday by U.S. marshals, sources said today. Azwan al-Kickemfari, who holds the NCAA Division III record with a 62-yard field goal, was arrested while packing for his trip to New York, where the annual draft is held. "A Muslim with an actual cannon for a leg heading to New York," said one anonymous official. "You do the math...that's a recipe for disaster." al-Kickemfafi's lawyer, Steve Javits, remarked the FBI was "stepping way out of bounds on this one" and also added "law...