I wonder if you actually pronounce the infix as you wrote it here.

I would've thought (and say myself much more naturally): Unbefuckinglievable.

At any rate, I didn't expect much more than this from Hon. Sen. Clinton.

Posted at June 4, 2008 7:40 AM in response to Hillary: "I Will Be Making No Decisions Tonight"

Wasn't there a similar problem in 2004? I seem to recall that there was some last minute flurry of groveling before some CEOs which saved the day. Personally, I would hope that we could spend less on these affairs anyway.

Posted at May 28, 2008 10:05 AM in response to Dems Way Behind In Financing Convention

So.. one side denies the problem, the other offers governmental solutions (aka regulations); my, moderate solution is the acknowledgment of the problem, but the denial of any solutions. We might call this the half a loaf is better than nothing strategy. Too bad it leads to the same place as denial.

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:12 AM in response to New McCain Ad: He Cares About Global Warming, But Won't Increase Taxes And Regulation

I'm not sure it matter all that much in the final analysis, but when will it be accepted that Hon. Sen. Obama has taken the lead in superdelegates? when half of the networks' tallies show this? 3/4?

Posted at May 11, 2008 8:39 AM in response to Obama Gains More Super-Delegates, AP Says He Now Leads

It's been awhile since we heard from Mr. Allbaugh. How's his war profiteering/influence peddling business coming along?

Posted at April 25, 2008 6:32 PM in response to McCain's False FEMA Promise

I hope our President* lives long enough to have even a partial comprehension of how poorly history will judge his tenure.

Posted at April 15, 2008 11:23 AM in response to Today's Must Read

Beyond the issue of this memo's content, which is indefensible, there is the issue of why it was classified in the first place:

J. William Leonard, the nation’s top classification oversight official from 2002-2007, concurred.

“The disappointment I feel with respect to the abuse of the classification system in this instance is profound,” said Mr. Leonard, who recently retired as director of the Information Security Oversight Office, which reports to the President on classification and declassification policy.

“The document in question (pdf) is purely a legal analysis,” he said, and it contains “nothing which would justify classification.”

Beyond that crucial fact, the binding technical requirements of classification were ignored.

Thus, he explained: There were no portion markings, identifying which paragraphs were classified at what level. The original classifier was not identified on the cover page by name or position. The duration of classification was not given. A concise basis for classification was not specified. Yet all of these are explicitly required by the President’s executive order on classification.

Posted at April 8, 2008 7:05 PM in response to Conyers Schedules Hearing with John Yoo

From FAIR:

Private contractors have played an integral role in the occupation of Iraq, often performing duties that would otherwise have to be carried out by the U.S. military. At present, it is believed that there are about as many contractors as active-duty U.S. personnel--slightly more than 150,000. The only available tally of contractor deaths in Iraq from the Labor Department stands at 1,123 as of the end of last year (Houston Chronicle, 2/9/08), a number that is almost certainly an undercount. But even this conservative figure is rarely, if ever, included in media discussions about the deaths associated with the Iraq War.

Posted at March 19, 2008 6:54 PM in response to Hundreds of flags .... 3,982 Americans dead

you forgot one fundamental point:

• Freedom requires religion

Posted at March 14, 2008 7:07 PM in response to The Development of Religious Liberty in America

Isn't some opprobrium due to "The Scotsman" for publishing an extemporaneous comment immediately folowed by a request that they not do so?

Posted at March 7, 2008 9:06 AM in response to Obama Adviser Apologizes For Calling Hillary A "Monster"