I just realized that one of the great tools of political blogging has become obsolete: The Hillary Test.
"You wouldn't be so eager to give the President the ability to throw US citizens in jail without charge or trial if Hillary Clinton was President!" just lost a lot of its Oomph!
It's the end of an era.
"He was corrupt," said a family friend who once employed him.
"He always lied," said a fellow Burger King worker.
Who? 'Curveball', the compulsive liar who was the wholesale source of much of the WMD nonsense that Bush and Cheney bought and re-sold as justification for starting the apparently endless war in Iraq.
A driving instructor who encouraged girls to kick him in groin has been jailed for four years.David Aston, who met one of the girls over the internet, was convicted by a jury of two counts of sexual activity with a child and four of causing or enticing a child to engage in sexual activity.
The 32-year-old twice stripped naked from the waist down, crouched on all fours on a towel in woodland near Bicester and encouraged four girls to kick him in the groin until he could no longer handle the pain.
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I just figured out that I'm one state away from having visited every coastal state in the continental* US.
I'll get to Mississippi some day. Probably.
* - where "continental" = "contiguous", as it commonly, though confusingly, does.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal iPod: O, answer me!
Fie On't! Ah fie!
Watch as our liberal media stammers in disbelief as Gen. Wesley Clark claims that John "Maverick POW War Hero" McCain may not actually have all the national security credentials he says he has.
