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It is Cover the Uninsured Weeka nd Ross at the Bloviator is going to town.
Just remember, you pay for the uninsured either upfront through taxes or you pay for it in your hospital bills.
State of the State
Today at Noon–KWMU will carry it and is available via streaming audio.
Where Is Sellers When We Need Him:New Feature-Stranglove Moments
Blogging at USS Clueless pretending to be Strangelove himself. Apparently the French are stealing our precious bodily fluids and they might just nuke us. As usual one is not enough, and Sellers makes an appearance as James Taranto here. A third Sellers appearance occurs in the comments over at Kieran Healy’s with were he plays two roles at once. In one case he is Strangelove saying:
I’m not quite sure why you think that’s so far fetched. You don’t think that the French would try to provide some help to their ally, Saddam Hussein?
France is Iraq’s ally.
France is not the USA’s ally.
That is under the name Narniaman. The other appearance is as highly rational and terrified Group Captain Lionel Mandrake AKA Kieran Healy (who is probably going to be pissed to be compared to an Englishman) who states:
Stranger things have happened than France nuking the United States? Want to give any examples? The famous rain of frogs in Posset-on-the-Wye in 1537, maybe?
So new feature—send me the best Strangelove moments on the blogs and I post ’em here. Strangelove was a parody, these fruitcakes aren’t.
Michael Savage Meet Ann Coulter
Savage is threatening boycott organizers with a restraint of trade lawsuit. Unfortunately for him, we stopped enforcing those silly claims when the Civil Rights Movement won–perhaps Jonah Goldberg could explain the difference between the right to pursue a career and the right to be paid for it as he did to Ann Coulter.
James Moran meet Pat Buchanan
Groan, when is Pat going back into his hole?
Hey, I know, let’s piss off our best ally
For some reason I don’t think Rumsfeld had in mind Washington’s concern over foreign entanglements when he brain farted out his sense that Britain may not be fully supportive of the US in Iraq. It is equally sure that he wasn’t thinking at all. When a staunch ally like Tony Blair is putting himself on the line for us, pulling a Tonya Harding is pretty stupid.
I always assumed this administration would do a bunch of dumb things leading up to a war, but they are truly reaching new levels of incompetence now.
The Philip Family is having a bad month
Pate gets grilled in the Fawell trial and threatened with perjury, now Art gets nabbed for a DUI in Florida. But not just a DUI, he blew .201, well over twice the limit and damn drunk. Not only that, but he left his wife and passenger hospitalized. Given the seriousness of this charge, it is unlikely he’ll be able to finish out his term on the Illinois Tollway Authority.
The Way to Abolish the Death Penalty
Is through a clear case of executing the innocent, and Texas may be on the way to helping the cause in the worst way possible. Talk Left has the details for an execution about to take place in, you guessed it, Texas.
The Most Important Blog This Week
The Bloviator who is doing Cover the Uninsured Week. Go, go quickly…
Richard Perle’s Mind is a Terrible Thing To Lose
Via Thinking it Through, Buzz Flash gives us the transcript of Richard Perle on Late Edition on Sunday where accuses Sy Hersch of being a terrorist.
PERLE: Because he’s widely irresponsible. If you read the article, it’s first of all, impossible to find any consistent theme in it.
So unfocused writing makes one a terrorist now?
But the suggestion that my views are somehow related for the potential for investments in homeland defense is complete nonsense.
And actually Perle is correct here. Perle is a loon of the first variety and it isn’t his investments driving his maniacal desire for an American Empire, it is his looniness. I don’t harp on the charge of empire building much, but in Perle’s case it is entirely appropriate. He is one of the loons who thinks the US ought to reinvent the Middle East.
BLITZER: But I don’t understand. Why do you accuse him of being a terrorist?
PERLE: Because he sets out to do damage and he will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever distortion he can — look, he hasn’t written a serious piece since My Lai.
Pot-Kettle Issues here.