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Last night on the Daily Show, Richard Clarke mentioned that there were military plans to retake Fallujah and other insurgent Iraqi cities, at extreme cost to US Troops, shortly after the election. Is there any other confirmation of this? Because that's some seriously fucked up shit rigt there.

Wow, do all of Richard Perle's predictions turn out this eerily correct?

From August:

A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush.

-Richard Perle - September 22, 2003

At least 20 Iraqis were killed and more than 200 wounded in fresh violence through Baghdad and fears grew for a British hostage whose two US colleagues were savagely beheaded by Islamist captors.

-The Associated Foreign Press - September 22, 2004

Tyranny

What do you call a man who locks up 5000 people for supposed crimes against the state for up to 3 years or more, and is unable to formally convict a single one.

You might call him a despot. Or you might call him John Ashcroft.

This is truly disgusting.

Da Rulez

I'm sick of trolls (possibly just Bill). So if there's inappropriate comments, I'll delete them and ban the sender rather than deal with the idiocy.

Inappropriate comments include:

Needlessly insulting or racist. (ex: troll, pretending to be Jewish, calling Palestineans "devils")

Clearly false identification (a troll calling himself Abe Goldstein wrote how Kerry would surrender immediately in the war on terror, and wrote his homepage as xoverboard.com, we all know who August Pollack is, and that he wouldn't resort to trolling, so screw you)

Pretending to be a librul while saying you believe everything that Ann Coulter says libruls believe (someone said that he hoped Hillary Clinton would become president so she would move the country to socialism. Any socialist who believes that Hillary Clinton is a socialist should get a new dictum, because they have no idea what the fuck Socialism is)

Swearing is fucking great, as long as you're not an asshole.

Longtime and awesome posters (ie my bro, Ross, valentine, Jake Squid) get free passes because they are cool, but I will call them on inappropriate comments (but this blog isn't quite influential enough to have very big discussions, so if any of these guys get the oppurtunity to say anything inappropriate, that will be a proud day from Raznor indeed.)

Ain't it the truth

Outrage and sweet, sweet revenge

Via Ampersand, a woman in Decatur was fired from her factory job for having a John Kerry bumpersticker on her car, and was later given a job working for Kerry's campaign.

The only thing that can make this a better ending is if she successfully sues her former asshole boss

Goodbye, Uppity Negro

Aaron of Uppity-negro.com has passed away.

It's a weird thing. With bloggers, as with anyone, you forget sometimes that they're just human, as mortal and frail as anyone else. I enjoyed Aaron's take on life. He'll be missed.

Happy birthday to me

I'm 23 today.

Praise me. PRAISE ME!

Dick Cheney has no shame - what else is new?

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States," Cheney told about 350 supporters at a town-hall meeting in this Iowa city.

More here. Via Josh Marshall and Atrios who both linked to this before I did. I really have nothing not obvious to say about the above statement, yeah, Cheney is a shameless SOB, but I liked this part:

If Kerry were elected, Cheney said the nation risks falling back into a "pre-9/11 mind-set" that terrorist attacks are criminal acts that require a reactive approach. Instead, he said Bush's offensive approach works to root out terrorists where they plan and train, and pressure countries that harbor terrorists.

Ah, nice, a "pre-9/11 mind-set". Would that be like attacking Iraq on a personal agenda rather than focusing on actual terrorist groups? Does that qualify as a "pre-9/11 mind-set"?

Man, Dick Cheney doesn't care what the fuck he says.

1000 dead

23 already in September.

Remind me of what they were fighting for again.

I hope they give Bush such a haunting.

Andrew Sullivan: Still an asshole

Go read this post by Atrios. Do it now. I have nothing to add that's better than what Atrios wrote on this, so go. Now.

A personal quandary

I find myself in a state where, although for purist reasons I shouldn't really like post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd, I can't get past the fact that The Division Bell is a damn, damn good album.

Just sayin'.

Apparently slander wasn't enough

The Swift Boat Liars are in big trouble now that they've been signing names to their letters without permission.

Do these guys have any credibility left?

Via August.

Speaking of comedy gold . . .

Lucia over at Alas, A Blog has a good post about Alan Keyes. My favorite thing is Keyes talking about his opposition to gun control:

"You're not talking about giving citizens access to atom bombs and other things," the former presidential candidate said. "That's ridiculous."

So, Keyes thinks that civilians shouldn't have access to atom bombs. Thanks for clearing that up, Alan, since that is such a central issue to the debate.

Comedy Gold, I tells ya

Via Tom Tomorrow, I enjoyed this post by Sam Rosenfeld of TAPPED:

Wow, Wolf Blitzer kept telling us we were in for a treat and he was right! Did you all catch that Saturday Night Live spoof they just showed to introduce the convention? Have you ever seen anything so hilarious in your life, ever? Ever? Wolf kept on hammering away to us for about ten minutes beforehand that we were going to be watching a funny SNL spoof that the RNC had put together, and I think it's now obvious that "funny" was just about the understatement of the year.

It was just like the intro to SNL, see, only it was a Don Pardo impersonator, and instead of the cast members from the show -- no, seriously, you're gonna love this -- instead of the cast members, they announced the primetime speakers for the convention! Ha. Ha ha ha haah ha ha Ha HA HA HAAA HAAAA HAAAAA HA!!!!!! Oh man, when the Wolf promises comedy gold from the GOP, he and they deliver it. Just priceless. As Wolf helpfully told White House flack Dan Bartlett after they had finally picked themselves off the floor and wiped the tears of mirth from their eyes, "This shows the Republicans have a sense of humor."

Understatement of the millennium, Wolf.