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Proof? Here and here.

You can't prove it's not Krugman.

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Irony isn't the proper word, but I think ironical pretty much nails it:

Yeah, well it is a battle between good and evil, isn't it? Clearly, Bush is evil.
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What was the quote from Margaret Cho the other day?

"Bush is not like Hitler."

Pause.

"He could be if he applied himself, but he's just too lazy." more...

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Courtesy of John Donovan

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Tyler Durden at RNC?

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Now can somebody convince him of that please?

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Nepalese readers throw down the gauntlet! Awesome. Just awesome. They invite the Jihadis to come and fight the Gurkhas (Gorkhalis) in open battle. See below (some pretty salty language).

UPDATE: Further Nepali rage. (hat tip: McQ)

UPDATE II: In response to my request on more information on the Gorkhalis, BRD has a great post explaining some background on Nepal. Brian B also has an interesting link in this post on the relationship of the Gurkhas in the British military. more...

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Screenshots taken from one site that is openly pro-Bush, and another that is openly pro-Kerry. Dr. Chaos pointed these out to me.

Election Projection

Electoral Vote

Update: Steve Green has been predicting this for some time, too.

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1 Rusty: I'm pretty sure the lower one's wrong. It's sixteen votes short of a full load.

Posted by: Demosophist at August 31, 2004 05:54 PM (turqZ)

2 That's because they have 'toss-up' category.

Posted by: RS at August 31, 2004 05:56 PM (JQjhA)

3 Rusty, Check out the following site: http://geekmedia.org/tradesports/ It keeps a running tally (updated every 3 hours) of the states based on how people are betting. Essentially it's like having the Iowa Political Markets broken down into 50 states. PS: I bought 30 shares of Bush to win Missouri when it was at 55. It's over 60 now.

Posted by: Senator PhilABuster at August 31, 2004 06:36 PM (yucew)

4 The Electoral College count I found earlier today had Bush at 300and Kerry at 238. Sorry, I didn't bookmark the url or I'd post it here. Any of the three, or even an average of the three indicate things aren't going Kerry's way - and the EC is the poll that counts.

Posted by: Iornbear at August 31, 2004 10:14 PM (lKUxU)

5 Man! I've *really* got to learn to preview when I find myself typoing my user-nick. ;]

Posted by: Ironbear at August 31, 2004 10:16 PM (lKUxU)

6 Looks like my prediction is almost there - Bush winning with 49-53% of the popular vote and 300+ EC votes.

Posted by: Lethalox at September 01, 2004 11:09 AM (gIeuu)

7 The numbers are still way to close. That scares me. No one has ever asked me to poll so no one has the opinion of those in my household or even my neighbors and I can tell you they are voting for Bush. So how can the numbers be correct in any way? ~C

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 01, 2004 12:57 PM (D39Vm)

8 firstbrokenangel, Consider yourself lucky that when the doctors ask for a blood sample they don't take two quarts.

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Dr. Leopold Stotch forwared this to me this. The e-mail that went along with it reads:

The proud warriors of Baker Company wanted to do something to pay tribute To our fallen comrades. So since we are part of the only Marine Infantry Battalion left in Iraq the one way that we could think of doing that is By taking a picture of Baker Company saying the way we feel. It would be awesome if you could find a way to share this with our fellow countrymen. I was wondering if there was any way to get this into your papers to let the world know that "WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN" and are proud to serve our country." Semper Fi
1stSgt Dave Jobe

The attached photo was forwarded from one of the last U.S. Marine companies in Iraq. They would like to have it passed to as many people as possible, to let the folks back home know that they remember why they're there and that they remember those who've been lost.

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Didn't Dave Chappelle already do this one? VOA:

French police have announced the arrest of a Jewish man in connection with what was first suspected to be an anti-Semitic arson attack on a Jewish center in Paris last week.

Police have not publicly identified the suspect, but investigators say he is associated with the center. Earlier reports had termed him a recently laid-off center employee. Investigators now describe the suspect as "mentally unstable" and "more or less homeless."

The arson attack on August 22 destroyed the Jewish center, and anti-Jewish slogans and swastikas were scrawled inside. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who visited Paris shortly after the fire, urged harsher punishments in France for perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks.

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This one's for you Dr. Chaos. Michelle 'de-link Rusty's brilliant Drudge-like post' Malkin:

You've heard about the two men who were busted for allegedly plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station. You may not have heard that one of the men, Shahawar Matin Siraj, a 22-year-old Pakistani national living in Jackson Heights, New York, had run into problems with immigration authorities.

On a related note, my sister told me on the phone yesterday that the INS swept through Temecula the other day. Apparently they raided a residential neighborhood, which is something you never hear of these days. You never will again, because she says (this is all second hand) that Homeland Security stepped in and stopped the raids. Temecula is Republican California and the locals got pissed off when the raids stopped, or so my sister says. Can anyone confirm this or know of any newspaper stories about the incident?

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I've been saying this for months. I notice Steve doesn't put Wisconsin in the Bush camp, either. And if Norm Coleman can get his wife to stump for Bush, you can chalk up MN too.

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I'm not sure which bugs me worse, the fact that one of Kerry's tolerance police throws the first punch or that one of our jackbooted comrades turns the other cheek. Scroll down and play the video.

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I just like the headline. 'Dyke'.

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Jeff Quinton has it. And to the trolls who think that serving in the military makes you immune from criticism, please watch the video then tell me John Kerry is a hero. Also here is what one POW confronted while in the Hanoi Hilton:

The interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. And he starts pounding on the table, "Well see here is this Naval officer, he [John Kerry] admits that you are a criminal and that you deserve punishment."

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

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Headline: Attack Ads May Be Hurting Kerry, LA Times Poll Shows

Problem: Has anyone actually seen one of these ads on TV? The people in this poll who claimed to have seen the ad are either lying or are recalling news clips of the ad---usually with the most damning parts being left out. Unless of course the sample was skewed towards the internet savvy--the only place I've ever seen the ad. Unlike Ace, I just don't think these ads have been viewed widely enough to have impacted the polls. People know of the ad, but have not seen it.

Freaking brilliant analysis.

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Oxymoron: Popular Jewish Actor in Hollywood is Republican.
(via Llama Butchers)

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Please Dana, tell us what you really think of John Kerry's performance on The Daily Show:

Kerry's charisma was less than zero: It was negative. He was a charm vacuum, forced to actually borrow mojo from audience members. He was a dessicated husk, a tin man who really didn't have a heart. His lack of vibrancy, his utter dearth of sex appeal made Al Gore look like Charo.

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Two words: Florida, Ohio.

Boo-hooo-hoooo!!!! (Hat tip: Dr. Chaos)

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I got this e-mail this morning from the Bush campaign.

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