Let the conspiracy theories commence!  The CFO of the company which built the Clinton Library has gone missing.

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Via doubleplusundead and the Palm Sunday edition of Links Around The Moronosphere,
Conservative Belle has a great post on why we shouldn't support politicians who don't follow conservative principles.  Read it and leave a comment to show your support.

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Ok, finding comedy gold tonight.  This looks old, but I hadn't seen it before.  Fair warning -- language  NSFW!!!

I can almost feel the flames already.  Why couldn't I have found these on a Friday night? 

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Ok, I'm just wrong for posting this, I admit it.  I don't really care about the whole controversy and wasn't going to post on it.  And on a Sunday no less... I'm going to hell.

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Can you spell irony Senator?  Hypocrite.

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1 It depends on how smart the AQ strategists are.    A Republican victory is (in my view) beneficial for them, because Bush's policies give them traction in the Moslem world.  George Bush has been the best recruiter AQ has had in the last eight years, and they are going to miss him.
A Democratic victory, on the other hand, will result in removal of the lot of the irritants that AQ propanganda can fuel itself it on.

Therefore, from the AQ perspective, reduced US combat deaths are good in the short term, and lack of terrorist successes inside the US are good, because that will be seen as evidence the efforts of the Bush administration are actually working.  Best of all will be a terrorist plot interrupted by the Bush administration. (I think it certain the AQ higher ups would purposely betray a cell here in the US if they feel it serves their overall purpose.)  A successful terrorist attack, OTOH, would be a roll of the dice.  It might be seen as proof that Bush has failed in the war on terror; or it might be the catalyst for a response similar to what happened after 9/11,for people to decide they need the Republicans to be sure that the US is tough on AQ;  and it would probably provoke people around the world to turn more sympathetic to the  US, which AQ definitely does not want. 

So I would predict a lull in AQ sponsored terrorism during September or October.  Of course that assumes that the appropriate people in AQ are as intelligent as me

Posted by: kishnevi at 15 March 2008@19:16:56 (bQbts)

2 The "Bush Doctrine as Recruiting Tool" is not an accurate meme.  Yes, they do use it with some occasional success, but far more are turning away from extremism.  Look at Anbar Province in Iraq, the Iranian dissident movement, pro-American leaders elected in France and Germany, and the despairing tone of intercepted communications recently.  They do not want a Republican in office.

Fortunately, they're not as smart as you and are unable to exploit the majority of their strategies.  They lucked out in Spain and Spain is paying the price for that.  Their appeasement of Islamic Radicals was an attempt to avoid further acts of terrorism... it hasn't quite worked out that way.  Look for Spain and most of the EU to become more pro-US because the Islamic Radicals have become a huge problem for them.

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3 Stash is right, the "Bush is causing more jihadi recruiting" meme is inaccurate, people have to think they have a chance at winning or they're much less likely to go to battle, and the jihadis are aching for recruits.  Terrorism and guerrilla warfare are heavily reliant on a favorable political climate and a large number of willing recruits. 

The crappy recruiting pool the jihadis have is evidence that they are in bad shape.  When they're using children and mentally handicapped people as bombers, most people are going to be horrified/disgusted by it, and the jihadis hurt themselves politically, which then defeats the whole purpose of terrorism/guerrilla warfare.

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When you see a farce like this, it's not hard to understand why other complaints about elections seem more credible than they actually are.  That it's an intentional strategy to make Democracy seem unworkable seems pretty clear to me.

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I'm not sure how long it wil be there, or if it constitutes Fair Use, so I'm just going to link to this and say "Bravo!  Well-played!!"

*UPDATE* To heck with it.  Maybe Gabriel Malor will stop by and let me know if commenting that the focus seems blurry to me and the font is a bit small, that constitutes Fair Use.  Probably not since this is an update and the intent to critique the image is now suspect.  If a copyright holder wants it down, email me and I'll take it down (I'll leave the link, you can deal with Engadget on your own) 

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Wow...  Read the text of the ad!  Loads on innuendo.

 

Well played, Virgin Mobile.  Well played.

 

And we'll ignore comments about whores and virgins for the moment. 

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2 Or "You call the shots."? 

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I've always had (and still do have) a great respect for her intelligence and character.  She was a great friend to President Reagan and still is a great friend to America.  Here's hoping her stay in the hospital is short and uneventful.

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When I talk bad about liberals, I should really say moonbats.  I can't stand moonbats.  Code Pink is full of hate-filled, socialist-loving, BDS-afflicted shrews.  IVAW is mostly made up from people who were either screw-ups in the military and have a grudge because they kept being slapped down, people who were never in the military, and maybe 5% who were good soldiers and now have sincere moral objections to the war.  Good on that 5% and I support them even though I don’t agree with them.  Why they associate with the other 95% I don't know.  There are many more examples and listing them would take hours.

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