I miss the Moose; I'll be glad when his antlers are rested. I really would love to have seen what he had to say over the last few days. In fact, I miss him so much I think I'm starting to channel him...

The Dog ponders the vile, traitorous, America-hating left.

The British today uncovered an Al Quaeda plot to bomb several airplanes bound from Great Britain to the United States. After a threat of that nature, any real American would have the guts to finally stand up and admit they were wrong about Iraq.

But no. The vile, fever-swamp, traitorous, anti-Semitic, baby-raping demagogues of Leftist Blogostan will stop at nothing in their secret mission to destroy America for having the fortitude to stand by Israel in her time of need.

As a nation we must put our head down and butt our way forward. We must put our head down and butt our way forward. We must put our head down and butt our way forward.

When the Democratic Party wakes up to the reality that only warmongers get elected, then Scoop Jackson can stop spinning in Teddy Roosevelt's grave.

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Ow. That hurts.

I put the plug way down here: go check out my new blog at Matt Smith's (LieberDem's) new place: demprogress.blogspot.com. Let me know what you think.

Hey, I'm not asking the FBI to look into it or anything, but it DID happen.

I'm what they call a "white hat". If you are not in the business, this means I know many ways to hack into this, that, and the other system, but I use my powers for good, kind of like Batman. I'm not really a security guy any more, meaning I don't stay up with the bleeding edge, though I've done that in a small way in past jobs; I am a software developer. But I do need a pretty complete working knowledge of how to hack into systems in order to keep people from doing it to ME.

This is something that is hard to get the layman to understand. In some IT jobs, you really must know a bit of the Dark Magic in order to do your job well.

So when I'm posting as Sundog, my Blogger account name, on LieberDem's Blogger site and I start seeing phony messages from me in the comments,, complete with "Sundog said" link pointing to my blog, implying someone has hacked my account, I naturally start trying to figure out how they did it.

I tried several fairly obvious approaches but I was not able to reproduce the effect. And yet, I am unconvined that whoever it was actually hacked my Blogger account for two reasons:

One, I was not the only victim; the commenter known as Lieberman4Lieberman was apparently attacked in an identical way, at about the same time. The chances against someone simultaneously hacking our accounts and using that information seem remote to me. LieberDem has (wisely in my view) turned of comments at this point, but I'm sure a record exists somewhere. I would happily swear that the counterfeit messages were not from me.

Two, no one has actually posted counterfeit entries in my Blogger blog itself, which leads me to think that only the commenting system was hacked. But damned if I can figure out how they did it.

Hey, I'm nobody. I'm absolutely nobody. And I'm completely aware that whatever tricks happened on LieberDem's website are absolutely insignificant in the scheme of things. But Lieberman's guys are making such a noise about their website getting hacked, let's remember that there is a demonstrable instance of a Lieberman supporter - not necessarily a member of the campaign, let's stop that silliness - hacking LieberDem's Blogger website in support of Lieberman, ironic as that might seem to any sane person.

There's been a lot of talk about "litmus tests" being applied to Joe Lieberman. I'd like to suggest one of my own.

As many have pointed out, yesterday's election had an extraordinarily large turnout, quite the contrary of what the Lieberman camp expected. They started weeks ago spinning this as an election that could potentially be hijacked by the leftists in the party, and thus the results could be worthless.

Instead, what we saw was a beautiful, textbook example of little-D democracy in action. People coming out in large numbers and casting votes. In my book, you can't be a big-D Democrat without being a little-D democrat, and little-d democracy spoke plainly yesterday.

That's my litmus test. And by showing clearly that he disdains the little-D democratic process to the extent of issuing his own Signing Statement about it - "I will not let this stand" - he fails miserably. Joe Lieberman is no Democrat, and apparently never was.

Here's another delicious column from the Moose. For full schadenfreude effect, I reproduce his May 22 post in its entirety:

NETROOTS LOSE AGAIN

The Moose observes that the McGovernites with Modems cannot do math.