They Just Can't Help Themselves

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 6:38 AM PDT

2006/06/21 · 06:38

Predictably, paste-eater Jonah Goldberg will obtain his copy of the new tome American Conservatism: An Encylopedia, just like any good conservative would:

"This volume is an enormously ambitious undertaking which succeeds mightily. At once both authoritative and provocative, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference for conservatives and those who seek to understand them. I shall pay it the high compliment of theft!"

Ah, the conservative creed! Rape, pillage, repeat. What more is there to understand?

Clueless

Blogenfreude

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Monday June 19, 2006 · 7:20 AM PDT

2006/06/19 · 07:20

So who do you think got their facts straight?

Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad (June 6, 2006 cable)
"Personal safety depends on good relations with the 'neighborhood' governments, who barricade streets and ward off outsiders. The central government, our staff says, is not relevant; even local mukhtars have been displaced or coopted by militias. People no longer trust most neighbors."

"An Arab newspaper editor told us he is preparing an extensive survey of ethnic cleansing, which he said is taking place in almost every Iraqi province, as political parties and their militiast are seemingly engaged in tit-for-tat reprisals all over Iraq."

Blogenfreude

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 3:43 PM PDT

2006/06/18 · 15:43

Used to be that far-right-wing politicians could count on each other for support as they invaded other nations, restricted personal freedoms, rigged elections, and wore silly clothing. But no longer - it seems as though Austrian far-right wingnut Jörg Haider has left the bunker:

"Austrian right-wing populist Jörg Haider called President Bush a war criminal on Saturday, days before Austria's government hosts Bush and European leaders in Vienna. Haider, whose group is part of Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's government coalition, said Bush's meeting with his European peers on Wednesday was pointless as he did not expect the U.S. president to pay attention to what Europe had to tell him."

The Dear Leader must long for the good old days when his word was law, and all was "right" with the world.

What If Coulter's Publisher Had To Pull The Book?

Blogenfreude

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 7:31 AM PDT

2006/06/16 · 07:31

Imagine - what if we ineffective little bloggers could get Coulter's book pulled? By now, you know that The Rude Pundit and Raw Story have caught Coulter red-handed - much of her "book" is taken from other sources but not attributed - this is known as PLAGIARISM. And you may remember that Little Brown pulled Kaavya Viswanathan's first (and last) novel after they caught her lifting large portions from two books by Megan F. McCafferty.

Other plagiarizers haven't fared so well either. RedState's Ben Domenich ~~was pushed~~ resigned from the WaPo after he was caught playing stenographer. The Weekly Standard has made a cottage industry out of pummeling Doris Kearns Goodwin because she didn't have quite enough footnotes.

I'm sure the 'ol Standard will immediately call for Coulter's book to be pulled.

Blogenfreude

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 7:30 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 07:30

Earlier in the week, Agitprop kvetched about the fact that no elected officials, including John Kerry, took seriously charges that the stolen 2004 election was stolen. Well, nobody took those charges seriously until someone with a famous last name (video link) wrote a Rolling Stone article a year and a half after the fact.

But wait! Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) gave a speech at the Take Back America conference in which she apologized for not taking "seriously enough" allegations that the election was stolen.

At this rate, we might be able to keep the Republicans from stealing the 2012 election (if they let us have one at all).

Department of Armchair Activism: you can click here to sign Velvet Revolution's petition declaring no confidence in the Busby/Bilbray race in California - that's the latest election stolen by Bu$hCo/Diebold - demand a recount!

Get Out Your Tinfoil Hats

Blogenfreude

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 7:55 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 07:55

Isn't This Fun ...

Blanton's & Ashton's reports that a group called Netvocates has been watching their blog. Who or what is Netvocates, you might ask? Their website claims they go after blogs who say bad things about a company or its products, but B&A has them dead to rights:

Basically, Netvocates is an organization that sends people out to web logs to post propoganda in comments. They appear to be tied to conservatives and there appears to be a tie to townhall.com, the ultra-right-wing web site. Cybersoc.com spent time running down the facts on Netvocates and the man behind Netvocates. I recommend that people who read blogs check out the Cybersoc.com posting. Education is armor.

Over at Agitprop, we regularly say awful things about religion, the administration, the right wing, psychotic authors, college republicans, and the odd automobile. Never seen Netvocates on the 'ol Sitemeter, but that doesn't mean they haven't been watching.

Agitprop respectfully suggests that all bloggers, big or small, tag all your posts with the Netvocates label. We've got to help them watch us, after all.

Blogenfreude

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 7:46 AM PDT

2006/06/13 · 07:46

Brave Dear Leader Spending 5 Hours In Green Zone!

At Agitprop, we're sure that the Dear Leader will learn a lot about the daily lives of regular 'ol Iraqis as they dodge bullets and IEDs. We're sure he'll bravely venture out onto the streets of Baghdad to see for himself the utter disaster he's created. No apologies of course - apologies are for Democrats! "And hey, I killed Zarqawi! Lookit' me! C'mon, I'm the War Preznit ..."

The question is, will he have time to serve fake food to the stop-loss soldiers?

Defending the Indefensible

Blogenfreude

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Saturday June 10, 2006 · 3:04 PM PDT

2006/06/10 · 15:04

It's been said that if Bush made himself Supreme-Leader-for-Life, the right would rise as one to pronounce it a good thing. In similar lockstep fashion, the paste-eaters now conclude that any reaction by the reality-based community to Coulter's attack on the 9/11 widows - she said, among other things, that they're "enjoying" their husbands' deaths - is proof that the widows' status immunizes them from attack. Coulter's statements in print and on TV pretty much take care of that claim, wouldn't you say?

But let's give the fascisti a chance to show that Coulter has actually been unable to criticize the likes of the Jersey Girls - fair and balanced and all that ...

All Things Conservative: When Ann is attacked for attacking the 9/11 widows it proves she never attacked the widows.
American Thinker: By responding to Ann's attacks, the widows prove Ann didn't attack them in the first place ... and don't you just hate leftist tools anyway?
Atlas Shrugs: My tits are bigger than Ann's tits ... that's why everybody ignores her when she attacks the 9/11 widows.
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God Thing Not Working Out So Well

Blogenfreude

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 8:24 AM PDT

2006/06/07 · 08:24

As you are doubtless aware, around 90% of Americans believe in a sky god. You know, that guy in the white robes that lives in the sky, watches over them, and cares about them?

Unfortunately, the evidence regarding this god thing is piling up, and it ain't good:

On Monday, a man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in the Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure.

Last week, a woman was struck by lightning while praying.

And, despite predictions of riots, vandalism, and the end of the earth, absolutely nothing of consequence happened on 6/06/06 ... unless you count the party in Hell.

Blogenfreude

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Thursday June 01, 2006 · 9:57 AM PDT

2006/06/01 · 09:57

Isn't this special? Shiite death squads are killing gays as part of a so-called "sexual cleansing" - and the U.S. isn't doing a damn thing about it!

"The highly organized campaign of beatings, kidnappings and murders of Iraqi gays follows a death-to-gays fatwa issued last October by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the 77-year-old Iranian who is supreme spiritual leader of all Shia Muslims in Iraq. The fatwa, available on Sistani’s official Web site, puts it this way, “The people involved [in homosexuality] should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.”
[snip]
"This reign of terror represents the importation into Iraq of the anti-gay killings being carried out in the Islamic Republic of Iran (see “Iran’s Anti-Gay Pogrom,” January). The Iraqi murders are the work of the Badr Corps, the military arm of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). The largest political formation in Iraq’s Shia community, SCIRI was headquartered in exile in Tehran until Saddam Hussein's fall."

Blogenfreude

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Wednesday May 31, 2006 · 8:38 AM PDT

2006/05/31 · 08:38

So now the Consumer Product Safety Commission's in on the War on Terror ... this time terrorizing physicists and little kids! Check it out:

"Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of DIY science."

Wow, we here at Agitprop feel safer already! Kick those geeks to the ground and ship 'em to Gitmo!

"The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram. “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.”

Blogenfreude

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 11:18 AM PDT

2006/05/23 · 11:18

It looks as though the War on Terror™ is going to outlive us all. Bu$hCo doesn't want to admit it's data mining? Tell the FCC not to investigate. Bu$hCo doesn't like a law? Just tack on a signing statement and bypass the courts altogether. Bu$hCo doesn't like a lawsuit? Invoke the "state secrets privilege":

Last Thursday, a federal court in Virginia threw out a lawsuit against the government that had been brought by a German citizen named Khalid el-Masri. El-Masri alleged that the government had violated U.S. law when—as part if its "extraordinary rendition" program—it authorized his abduction, drugging, confinement, and torture. His captors allegedly shuttled him on clandestine flights to and from places like Kabul, Baghdad, and Skopje, Macedonia, during the five months of his detention. He was released only when the government realized it had kidnapped the wrong man. Read More

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What If Coulter's Publisher Had To Pull The Book?

Agitprop's Department of Armchair Activism

Get Out Your Tinfoil Hats

Curious George Goes To Iraq

Defending the Indefensible

God Thing Not Working Out So Well

Sexual Cleansing Brought To You By Bu$hCo

Bush v. Science

The Long War